Bakalah Surname
Approximately 280 people bear this surname
Bakalah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Israel | 255 | 1:33,559 | 4,715 |
| Iran | 25 | 1:3,071,301 | 92,215 |
Bakalah (27) may also be a first name.
Bakalah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bakalah Come From? nationality or country of origin
Bakalah has its highest incidence in Israel. It can also be rendered as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Bakalah? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 937,786th most commonly held surname at a global level, held by around 1 in 26,026,950 people. The last name occurs mostly in Asia, where 100 percent of Bakalah live; 91 percent live in West Asia and 91 percent live in Judeo-West Asia. It is also the 2,036,353rd most frequently occurring first name globally It is held by 27 people.
The surname is most widespread in Israel, where it is borne by 255 people, or 1 in 33,559. In Israel it is most common in: Jerusalem District, where 34 percent live, Southern District, where 27 percent live and Haifa District, where 12 percent live. Without taking into account Israel this last name is found in one country. It also occurs in Iran, where 9 percent live.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Bakalah
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