Balakan Surname
Approximately 1,422 people bear this surname
Balakan Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turkey | 908 | 1:85,706 | 7,731 |
| Ukraine | 344 | 1:132,333 | 18,663 |
| Russia | 89 | 1:1,619,360 | 108,163 |
| Transnistria | 18 | 1:26,372 | 4,484 |
| Moldova | 16 | 1:222,586 | 20,292 |
| Iran | 13 | 1:5,906,348 | 134,214 |
| Kazakhstan | 10 | 1:1,768,250 | 83,699 |
| Belarus | 7 | 1:1,357,294 | 83,128 |
| India | 6 | 1:127,844,230 | 863,365 |
| Taiwan | 3 | 1:7,814,915 | 41,694 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Mongolia | 1 | 1:2,825,289 | 17,010 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
Balakan (68) may also be a first name.
Balakan Demographics
Balakan Religious Adherence
in Russia
Religious Adherence
in Russia
Balakan Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Balakan Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Balakan (Hindi: बालकान, Marathi: बालकन, Oriya: ବାଲକାନ, Russian: Балакан) has its highest incidence in Turkey. It can also appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Balakan click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Balakan? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 273,426th most frequently used surname world-wide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 5,124,856 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Asia, where 64 percent of Balakan reside; 59 percent reside in West Asia and 59 percent reside in Anatolia and Highlands. Balakan is also the 1,181,159th most numerous forename world-wide, borne by 68 people.
This surname is most commonly used in Turkey, where it is borne by 908 people, or 1 in 85,706. In Turkey Balakan is primarily found in: Bitlis Province, where 20 percent live, Van Province, where 13 percent live and Sanliurfa Province, where 11 percent live. Without taking into account Turkey this last name occurs in 17 countries. It also occurs in Ukraine, where 24 percent live and Russia, where 6 percent live.
Balakan Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those carrying the surname is principally Orthodox (86%) in Russia, Orthodox (75%) in Belarus and Orthodox (93%) in Ukraine.
Phonetically Similar Names
Balakan Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Balakan in the Oriya language | ||
| ବାଲକାନ | balakana | - |
| Balakan in the Marathi language | ||
| बालकन | balakana | 50 |
| बलाकन | balakana | 20 |
| बाळकण | balakana | 20 |
| बालिकान | balikana | 10 |
| Balakan in the Hindi language | ||
| बालकान | balakana | 33.33 |
| बलकान | balakana | 33.33 |
| बलकन | balakana | 33.33 |
| Balakan in the Russian language | ||
| Балакан | balakan | - |
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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 Balakan
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