Bekau Surname
Approximately 268 people bear this surname
Bekau Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 260 | 1:284,152 | 26,288 |
| Papua New Guinea | 6 | 1:1,358,953 | 118,663 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
Bekau (52) may also be a first name.
Bekau Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bekau Come From? nationality or country of origin
Bekau is most common in The DR Congo. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of Bekau.
How Common Is The Last Name Bekau? popularity and diffusion
The surname Bekau is the 968,490th most frequently held last name on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 27,192,336 people. This last name is primarily found in Africa, where 97 percent of Bekau live; 97 percent live in Central Africa and 97 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,381,723rd most common forename throughout the world, held by 52 people.
This last name is most commonly held in The DR Congo, where it is held by 260 people, or 1 in 284,152. Excluding The DR Congo it exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 2 percent reside and Benin, 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
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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 Bekau
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