Bakem Surname
Approximately 152 people bear this surname
Bakem Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 132 | 1:157,341 | 17,155 |
| India | 7 | 1:109,580,769 | 786,157 |
| Benin | 6 | 1:1,722,600 | 61,769 |
| Iran | 3 | 1:25,594,175 | 224,183 |
| Papua New Guinea | 2 | 1:4,076,858 | 165,791 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 1:12,554,671 | 503,821 |
Bakem (64) may also be a first name.
Bakem Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bakem Come From? nationality or country of origin
Bakem (Hindi: बाकें) occurs most in Cameroon. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Bakem click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Bakem? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 1,422,956th most widely held surname world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 47,944,381 people. The surname Bakem occurs mostly in Africa, where 92 percent of Bakem reside; 87 percent reside in Central Africa and 87 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,223,525th most prevalent first name throughout the world It is held by 64 people.
The surname Bakem is most frequently used in Cameroon, where it is carried by 132 people, or 1 in 157,341. In Cameroon Bakem is most frequent in: Centre Region, where 36 percent are found, Northwest Region, where 24 percent are found and Littoral Region, where 23 percent are found. Apart from Cameroon this last name exists in 6 countries. It also occurs in India, where 5 percent are found and Benin, where 4 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Bakem Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Bakem in the Hindi language | ||
| बाकें | bakem | - |
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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 Bakem
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