Belem Surname
Approximately 144,256 people bear this surname
Belem Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 123,676 | 1:148 | 19 |
| Brazil | 14,304 | 1:14,966 | 783 |
| Mali | 2,517 | 1:6,742 | 414 |
| Ivory Coast | 1,067 | 1:21,623 | 1,580 |
| Chad | 770 | 1:17,652 | 2,191 |
| Yemen | 484 | 1:54,598 | 4,241 |
| Portugal | 330 | 1:31,570 | 1,981 |
| Mexico | 209 | 1:593,905 | 9,891 |
| Cameroon | 180 | 1:115,384 | 13,316 |
| India | 171 | 1:4,485,762 | 116,822 |
| South Africa | 155 | 1:349,534 | 32,108 |
| United States | 72 | 1:5,034,152 | 256,679 |
| France | 72 | 1:922,538 | 106,020 |
| Canada | 50 | 1:736,912 | 58,785 |
| Papua New Guinea | 43 | 1:189,621 | 26,314 |
| Indonesia | 20 | 1:6,612,460 | 283,723 |
| Taiwan | 17 | 1:1,379,103 | 9,281 |
| Mozambique | 16 | 1:1,703,848 | 2,274 |
| Uruguay | 15 | 1:228,784 | 17,372 |
| Senegal | 14 | 1:1,041,382 | 3,211 |
| Italy | 13 | 1:4,704,361 | 107,811 |
| Nigeria | 8 | 1:22,142,845 | 310,552 |
| England | 6 | 1:9,286,343 | 223,652 |
| Algeria | 5 | 1:7,726,310 | 57,379 |
| Tunisia | 4 | 1:152,656 | 17,743 |
| Botswana | 4 | 1:546,732 | 22,624 |
| Spain | 3 | 1:15,584,012 | 120,866 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Zambia | 1 | 1:15,849,922 | 53,989 |
| Vanuatu | 1 | 1:263,276 | 2,086 |
| Sri Lanka | 1 | 1:20,808,560 | 18,521 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 1:7,335,483 | 16,643 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Bolivia | 1 | 1:10,616,434 | 17,077 |
| Chile | 1 | 1:17,616,474 | 93,597 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Guatemala | 1 | 1:16,082,668 | 12,169 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 1 | 1:177,423 | 3,686 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Lesotho | 1 | 1:2,032,558 | 23,402 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
The alternate forms: Belém (513) & Bélem (3) are calculated separately.
Belem (20,479) may also be a first name.
Belem Demographics
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Belem Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Belem Come From? nationality or country of origin
Belem (Bengali: বেলেম, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺑﻠﻤﻪ, Marathi: बेलेम, Oriya: େବେଲମ, Russian: Белем, Tibetan: སྦལ་ལེགས་མོ།) has its highest incidence in Burkina Faso. It can also appear as: Belém or Bélem. Click here for further possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Belem? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 3,879th most common surname on earth, borne by around 1 in 50,518 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 89 percent of Belem reside; 89 percent reside in West Africa and 69 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 37,157th most prevalent first name in the world. It is borne by 20,479 people.
The last name Belem is most commonly used in Burkina Faso, where it is borne by 123,676 people, or 1 in 148. In Burkina Faso Belem is mostly concentrated in: Nord Region, where 44 percent live, Hauts-Bassins Region, where 18 percent live and Boucle du Mouhoun Region, where 11 percent live. Beside Burkina Faso this last name exists in 55 countries. It is also common in Brazil, where 10 percent live and Mali, where 2 percent live.
Belem Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States Belem are 46.77% more likely to be registered Democrats than The US average, with 100% being registered to vote for the party.
The amount Belem earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 57.38% less than the national average, earning R 101,292 per year; in United States they earn 11.03% more than the national average, earning $47,908 USD per year and in Canada they earn 4.19% more than the national average, earning $51,765 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Belem Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Belem in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺑﻠﻤﻪ | blmh | - |
| Belem in the Tibetan language | ||
| སྦལ་ལེགས་མོ། | ballekmo | - |
| Belem in the Bengali language | ||
| বেলেম | belema | - |
| Belem in the Oriya language | ||
| େବେଲମ | ebelama | - |
| Belem in the Marathi language | ||
| बेलेम | belema | - |
| Belem in the Russian language | ||
| Белем | belem | - |
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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 Belem
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