Bekkou Surname
Approximately 487 people bear this surname
Bekkou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Algeria | 483 | 1:79,983 | 12,645 |
| France | 3 | 1:22,140,907 | 385,998 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
Bekkou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bekkou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Bekkou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺑﻜﻮ) is held by more people in Algeria than any other country/territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Bekkou? popularity and diffusion
The last name Bekkou is the 628,294th most commonly held last name globally It is held by around 1 in 14,964,160 people. The last name Bekkou is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Bekkou reside; 99 percent reside in North Africa and 99 percent reside in Mahgreb.
This surname is most commonly held in Algeria, where it is borne by 483 people, or 1 in 79,983. In Algeria it is most common in: Tizi Ouzou Province, where 58 percent live, Souk Ahras Province, where 42 percent live and Béjaïa Province, where 0 percent live. Apart from Algeria this surname is found in 2 countries. It is also found in France, where 1 percent live and Mauritania, where 0 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Bekkou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Bekkou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺑﻜﻮ | bkw | - |
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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 Bekkou
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