Benchaira Surname
Approximately 568 people bear this surname
Benchaira Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morocco | 307 | 1:112,300 | 19,480 |
| Algeria | 259 | 1:149,157 | 19,516 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Benchaïra (1) are calculated separately.
Benchaira Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Benchaira Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Benchaira occurs in Morocco more than any other country/territory. It can be found in the variant forms: Benchaïra. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Benchaira? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 559,180th most frequently occurring surname globally, held by around 1 in 12,830,186 people. Benchaira occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Benchaira are found; 100 percent are found in North Africa and 100 percent are found in Mahgreb.
The surname Benchaira is most numerous in Morocco, where it is borne by 307 people, or 1 in 112,300. Other than Morocco this last name exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in Algeria, where 46 percent reside and Sweden, where 0 percent reside.
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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 Benchaira
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