Balık Surname
Approximately 13,505 people bear this surname
Balık Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turkey | 13,503 | 1:5,763 | 830 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Balk (9,253) are calculated separately.
Balık Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Balık Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Balık is found most in Turkey. It can occur as a variant: Balk. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Balık? popularity and diffusion
The last name Balık is the 38,939th most widely held surname worldwide. It is borne by around 1 in 539,618 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Asia, where 88 percent of Balık are found; 88 percent are found in West Asia and 88 percent are found in Anatolia and Highlands.
The surname Balık is most frequently occurring in Turkey, where it is carried by 13,503 people, or 1 in 5,763. In Turkey it is most numerous in: Istanbul Province, where 15 percent reside, Diyarbakir Province, where 7 percent reside and Malatya Province, where 6 percent reside. Excluding Turkey this last name exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in Germany, where 0 percent reside and The United States, where 0 percent reside.
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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 Balık
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