Bessame Surname
Approximately 21 people bear this surname
Bessame Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Algeria | 6 | 1:6,438,592 | 53,709 |
| Netherlands | 6 | 1:2,814,529 | 101,176 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Chad | 1 | 1:13,592,199 | 13,092 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Transnistria | 1 | 1:474,699 | 17,893 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Bessamé (1) are calculated separately.
Bessame Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bessame Come From? nationality or country of origin
Bessame (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺑﺴﺎﻡ, Russian: Бессаме) is borne by more people in Algeria than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered as: Bessamé. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Bessame? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 4,307,654th most widely held last name world-wide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 347,025,996 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 48 percent of Bessame live; 29 percent live in Western Europe and 29 percent live in Germanic Europe.
The surname Bessame is most frequent in Algeria, where it is held by 6 people, or 1 in 6,438,592. Beside Algeria it occurs in 8 countries. It is also found in The Netherlands, where 29 percent live and Brazil, where 10 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Bessame Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Bessame in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺑﺴﺎﻡ | bsam | - |
| Bessame in the Russian language | ||
| Бессаме | bessame | - |
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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 Bessame
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