Bentala Surname
Approximately 271 people bear this surname
Bentala Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 209 | 1:81,910 | 10,289 |
| Algeria | 53 | 1:728,897 | 41,087 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Indonesia | 2 | 1:66,124,597 | 756,638 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 1:8,443,588 | 136,641 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
Bentala (27) may also be a first name.
Bentala Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bentala Come From? nationality or country of origin
Bentala is found most in Malawi. It can also be found in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Bentala? popularity and diffusion
It is the 961,438th most commonly held last name world-wide It is held by around 1 in 26,891,313 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 97 percent of Bentala live; 77 percent live in Southern Africa and 77 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 2,036,353rd most numerous first name on earth, held by 27 people.
The last name is most widespread in Malawi, where it is held by 209 people, or 1 in 81,910. Beside Malawi it exists in 7 countries. It is also common in Algeria, where 20 percent reside and France, where 1 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 Bentala
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