Ben Sayah Surname
Approximately 318 people bear this surname
Ben Sayah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Algeria | 306 | 1:126,247 | 17,449 |
| Tunisia | 9 | 1:67,847 | 8,246 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
Ben Sayah (11) may also be a first name.
Ben Sayah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ben Sayah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Ben Sayah has its highest incidence in Algeria. It can be rendered as:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Ben Sayah? popularity and diffusion
The surname Ben Sayah is the 857,026th most commonly used family name internationally, held by around 1 in 22,916,811 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Ben Sayah reside; 99 percent reside in North Africa and 99 percent reside in Mahgreb. Ben Sayah is also the 3,487,849th most frequently used first name world-wide, borne by 11 people.
The last name is most commonly used in Algeria, where it is carried by 306 people, or 1 in 126,247. In Algeria Ben Sayah is mostly found in: Laghouat Province, where 46 percent live, Biskra Province, where 25 percent live and Ghardaïa Province, where 1 percent live. Apart from Algeria it exists in 3 countries. It is also found in Tunisia, where 3 percent live and France, where 1 percent live.
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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
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