Barkisu Surname
Approximately 123 people bear this surname
Barkisu Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 77 | 1:269,728 | 25,950 |
| Nigeria | 35 | 1:5,061,222 | 131,727 |
| Ghana | 9 | 1:3,002,299 | 11,581 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Barkisu (1,616) may also be a first name.
Barkisu Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Barkisu Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Barkisu occurs most in Cameroon. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Barkisu? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,628,521st most widespread last name at a global level, held by approximately 1 in 59,248,341 people. The last name Barkisu occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Barkisu reside; 62 percent reside in Central Africa and 62 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa. Barkisu is also the 192,180th most frequently used forename world-wide, borne by 1,616 people.
The surname Barkisu is most commonly occurring in Cameroon, where it is held by 77 people, or 1 in 269,728. In Cameroon Barkisu is mostly concentrated in: Northwest Region, where 95 percent reside, Adamawa Region, where 1 percent reside and Centre Region, where 1 percent reside. Excluding Cameroon this last name is found in 4 countries. It is also found in Nigeria, where 28 percent reside and Ghana, where 7 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 Barkisu
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