Beaga Surname
Approximately 848 people bear this surname
Beaga Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 755 | 1:24,307 | 1,542 |
| Papua New Guinea | 73 | 1:111,695 | 15,161 |
| Nigeria | 11 | 1:16,103,887 | 259,204 |
| Brazil | 7 | 1:30,582,047 | 441,004 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Beagá (1) are calculated separately.
Beaga (11) may also be a first name.
Beaga Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Beaga Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Beaga is more frequently found in Burkina Faso than any other country or territory. It may also be found as a variant: Beagá. Click here for other potential spellings of Beaga.
How Common Is The Last Name Beaga? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 411,457th most frequent surname worldwide, held by approximately 1 in 8,593,804 people. Beaga occurs predominantly in Africa, where 90 percent of Beaga reside; 90 percent reside in West Africa and 90 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Beaga is also the 3,487,849th most widespread first name worldwide It is held by 11 people.
The last name Beaga is most commonly used in Burkina Faso, where it is held by 755 people, or 1 in 24,307. In Burkina Faso Beaga is most common in: Centre-Est Region, where 94 percent live, Centre Region, where 3 percent live and Est Region, where 2 percent live. Other than Burkina Faso it occurs in 5 countries. It is also common in Papua New Guinea, where 9 percent live and Nigeria, where 1 percent live.
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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 Beaga
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