Belah Surname
Approximately 2,577 people bear this surname
Belah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Egypt | 2,136 | 1:43,041 | 4,344 |
| Israel | 222 | 1:38,548 | 5,284 |
| Mauritania | 46 | 1:89,019 | 5,672 |
| Nigeria | 41 | 1:4,320,555 | 118,938 |
| Indonesia | 32 | 1:4,132,787 | 209,071 |
| Cameroon | 21 | 1:989,003 | 63,570 |
| India | 13 | 1:59,005,029 | 552,550 |
| Liberia | 13 | 1:339,118 | 18,650 |
| Philippines | 11 | 1:9,203,475 | 207,772 |
| Netherlands | 11 | 1:1,535,198 | 78,311 |
| Algeria | 7 | 1:5,518,793 | 51,529 |
| England | 5 | 1:11,143,612 | 252,590 |
| Saudi Arabia | 4 | 1:7,713,954 | 37,548 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| Solomon Islands | 1 | 1:580,029 | 22,243 |
| Latvia | 1 | 1:2,050,046 | 60,295 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 9 | 1:5,579,854 | 232,921 |
Belah (10,088) may also be a first name.
Belah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Belah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Belah (Arabic: بلعه, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺑﻼﻩ, Hindi: बेलहा, Marathi: बेलाह, Oriya: େବଲହ) is more commonly found in Egypt than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered as a variant:. Click here for further possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Belah? popularity and diffusion
The surname Belah is the 167,770th most frequently held surname on earth It is held by around 1 in 2,827,918 people. The surname Belah is primarily found in Africa, where 88 percent of Belah live; 83 percent live in North Africa and 83 percent live in Arabic North Africa. It is also the 60,869th most frequently used forename globally It is held by 10,088 people.
It is most frequently held in Egypt, where it is carried by 2,136 people, or 1 in 43,041. Besides Egypt this surname exists in 24 countries. It also occurs in Israel, where 9 percent are found and Mauritania, where 2 percent are found.
Belah Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Belah has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Belah last name declined 78 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Phonetically Similar Names
Belah Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Belah in the Oriya language | ||
| େବଲହ | ebalaha | - |
| Belah in the Marathi language | ||
| बेलाह | belaha | - |
| Belah in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺑﻼﻩ | blah | 85.71 |
| ﺑﻠﺢ | blh | 14.29 |
| Belah in the Hindi language | ||
| बेलहा | belaha | 66.67 |
| बेलाह | belaha | 33.33 |
| Belah in the Arabic language | ||
| بلعه | blh | - |
| بلح | blh | - |
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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 Belah
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