Bessiri Surname
Approximately 337 people bear this surname
Bessiri Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Algeria | 333 | 1:116,011 | 16,529 |
| Greece | 2 | 1:5,539,895 | 129,142 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Bessiri Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bessiri Come From? nationality or country of origin
Bessiri (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺑﺼﻴﺮﻱ) is held by more people in Algeria than any other country or territory. It may be rendered as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Bessiri? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 823,466th most frequently held surname on a worldwide basis. It is borne by around 1 in 21,624,765 people. This last name is primarily found in Africa, where 99 percent of Bessiri live; 99 percent live in North Africa and 99 percent live in Mahgreb.
This last name is most prevalent in Algeria, where it is carried by 333 people, or 1 in 116,011. In Algeria Bessiri is most common in: Chlef Province, where 71 percent are found, Skikda Province, where 28 percent are found and Guelma Province, where 0 percent are found. Beside Algeria it occurs in 3 countries. It is also found in Greece, where 1 percent are found and Mauritania, where 0 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Bessiri Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Bessiri in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺑﺼﻴﺮﻱ | bsyry | - |
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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 Bessiri
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