Bakhshan Surname

578,557th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 543 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Iran
Highest density in:
Iran

Bakhshan Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Bakhshan Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Iran4261:180,24114,989
Pakistan971:1,841,69018,345
India71:109,580,769786,157
Lebanon71:805,29815,541
Iraq41:8,755,41423,373
Canada11:36,845,591464,108
Yemen11:26,425,29455,147

Bakhshan (975) may also be a first name.

Bakhshan Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Bakhshan Come From? nationality or country of origin

Bakhshan (Arabic: بخشان, Hindi: बख्शं) is found most frequently in Iran. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of Bakhshan.

How Common Is The Last Name Bakhshan? popularity and diffusion

It is the 578,557th most numerous surname internationally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 13,420,895 people. Bakhshan occurs mostly in Asia, where 100 percent of Bakhshan live; 98 percent live in South Asia and 96 percent live in Islamic South Asia. Bakhshan is also the 258,094th most frequently held first name worldwide It is held by 975 people.

This surname is most frequently used in Iran, where it is borne by 426 people, or 1 in 180,241. In Iran it is primarily concentrated in: Isfahan Province, where 54 percent are found, Razavi Khorasan Province, where 19 percent are found and Mazandaran Province, where 9 percent are found. Excluding Iran this surname occurs in 6 countries. It also occurs in Pakistan, where 18 percent are found and India, where 1 percent are found.

Bakhshan Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those holding the Bakhshan surname is predominantly Sunni (100%) in Lebanon.

Phonetically Similar Names

Bakhshan Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Bakhshan in the Hindi language
बख्शंbakhsam66.67
बख्शनbakhsana33.33
Bakhshan in the Arabic language
بخشانbkhshan-

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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 Bakhshan
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