Belkair Surname
Approximately 85 people bear this surname
Belkair Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 84 | 1:48,748 | 3,603 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
Belkair Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Belkair Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Belkair (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺑﻠﺨﻴﺮ) occurs more in Mauritania more than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as:. Click here for other potential spellings of Belkair.
How Common Is The Last Name Belkair? popularity and diffusion
The surname Belkair is the 2,034,059th most commonly occurring family name internationally, held by around 1 in 85,735,834 people. Belkair occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Belkair reside; 99 percent reside in West Africa and 99 percent reside in Senegambia Africa.
Belkair is most numerous in Mauritania, where it is borne by 84 people, or 1 in 48,748. In Mauritania it is most prevalent in: Tagant Region, where 43 percent are found, Hodh Chargui Region, where 18 percent are found and Assaba Region, where 13 percent are found. Not including Mauritania this surname is found in one country. It is also common in Algeria, where 1 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Belkair Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Belkair in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺑﻠﺨﻴﺮ | blkhyr | 97.73 |
| ﺑﺎﻟﺨﻴﺮ | balkhyr | 2.27 |
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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 Belkair
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