Bakana Surname
Approximately 7,152 people bear this surname
Bakana Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 3,051 | 1:24,215 | 3,043 |
| Congo | 2,854 | 1:1,748 | 284 |
| South Africa | 448 | 1:120,932 | 14,342 |
| Tanzania | 437 | 1:121,148 | 11,507 |
| Nigeria | 80 | 1:2,214,284 | 75,532 |
| Liberia | 79 | 1:55,804 | 4,929 |
| Papua New Guinea | 40 | 1:203,843 | 28,184 |
| Niger | 29 | 1:661,794 | 16,082 |
| India | 23 | 1:33,350,669 | 396,143 |
| Uganda | 18 | 1:2,168,849 | 67,754 |
| Philippines | 17 | 1:5,955,190 | 180,670 |
| Cameroon | 13 | 1:1,597,621 | 87,539 |
| Canada | 12 | 1:3,070,466 | 169,836 |
| Belgium | 9 | 1:1,277,405 | 87,318 |
| Benin | 8 | 1:1,291,950 | 54,095 |
| France | 6 | 1:11,070,454 | 349,096 |
| United States | 6 | 1:60,409,822 | 1,028,827 |
| England | 4 | 1:13,929,515 | 290,718 |
| Togo | 4 | 1:1,811,942 | 8,122 |
| Brazil | 4 | 1:53,518,583 | 632,670 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Mozambique | 1 | 1:27,261,569 | 7,432 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Burundi | 1 | 1:9,804,852 | 2,349 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
The alternate forms: Bakanã (1) are calculated separately.
Bakana (367) may also be a first name.
Bakana Demographics
Average Bakana Salary in
Canada
$35,476 CAD
Per year
Average Salary in
Canada
$49,683 CAD
Per year
Bakana Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bakana Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Bakana (Hindi: बकाना, Marathi: बाकना, Oriya: ବକନ) is most common in The DR Congo. It may be rendered as: Bakanã. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Bakana? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 69,310th most common family name on earth, borne by around 1 in 1,018,952 people. Bakana occurs mostly in Africa, where 98 percent of Bakana reside; 83 percent reside in Central Africa and 83 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 453,982nd most commonly used first name world-wide, held by 367 people.
This last name is most prevalent in The DR Congo, where it is borne by 3,051 people, or 1 in 24,215. Excluding The DR Congo this last name exists in 28 countries. It is also common in The Congo, where 40 percent live and South Africa, where 6 percent live.
Bakana Last Name Statistics demography
The amount Bakana earn in different countries varies somewhat. In South Africa they earn 38.73% less than the national average, earning R 145,596 per year and in Canada they earn 28.6% less than the national average, earning $35,476 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Bakana Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Bakana in the Hindi language | ||
| बकाना | bakana | 83.33 |
| बाकां | bakam | 16.67 |
| Bakana in the Marathi language | ||
| बाकना | bakana | 55.26 |
| बकना | bakana | 28.95 |
| बाफना | baphana | 5.26 |
| बाकाना | bakana | 5.26 |
| बकणा | bakana | 2.63 |
| बकाणा | bakana | 2.63 |
| Bakana in the Oriya language | ||
| ବକନ | bakana | 20 |
| ବାକାଣା | bakana | 20 |
| ବାକଣା | bakana | 20 |
| ବକାନା | bakana | 20 |
| ବକନା | bakana | 10 |
| କାଡାକା | kadaka | 10 |
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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
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- 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 Bakana
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