Bensah Surname
Approximately 1,850 people bear this surname
Bensah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 1,801 | 1:15,003 | 1,939 |
| Cameroon | 24 | 1:865,378 | 58,754 |
| Benin | 9 | 1:1,148,400 | 50,768 |
| Nigeria | 7 | 1:25,306,108 | 327,793 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
Bensah (10) may also be a first name.
Bensah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bensah Come From? nationality or country of origin
Bensah has its highest incidence in Ghana. It can be rendered as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Bensah? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 220,755th most frequent family name worldwide, borne by around 1 in 3,939,214 people. This last name is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Bensah reside; 98 percent reside in West Africa and 98 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Bensah is also the 3,684,242nd most commonly used forename globally. It is borne by 10 people.
The surname is most commonly held in Ghana, where it is borne by 1,801 people, or 1 in 15,003. Apart from Ghana it is found in 9 countries. It is also common in Cameroon, where 1 percent reside and Benin, 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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Bensah
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