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 is most common in Ghana. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Bensah? popularity and diffusion
The surname Bensah is the 220,755th most commonly held surname internationally, held by approximately 1 in 3,939,214 people. Bensah occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Bensah live; 98 percent live in West Africa and 98 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Bensah is also the 3,684,242nd most common forename world-wide It is held by 10 people.
The last name Bensah is most frequently occurring in Ghana, where it is carried by 1,801 people, or 1 in 15,003. Outside of Ghana this last name exists in 9 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 1 percent live and Benin, where 0 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
- 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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