Bessona Surname
Approximately 4 people bear this surname
Bessona Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 2 | 1:12,187,685 | 173,419 |
Bessona (4) may also be a first name.
Bessona Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bessona Come From? nationality or country of origin
Bessona is more commonly found in Burkina Faso than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Bessona? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 8,968,613th most numerous family name worldwide It is held by around 1 in 1,821,886,479 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 75 percent of Bessona live; 50 percent live in West Africa and 50 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Bessona is also the 6,192,526th most commonly held first name at a global level. It is borne by 4 people.
The surname is most frequently held in Burkina Faso, where it is borne by 1 people, or 1 in 18,352,100. In Burkina Faso Bessona is most common in: Centre-Ouest Region, where 100 percent are found. Not including Burkina Faso this last name occurs in 3 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 25 percent are found and The Ivory Coast, where 25 percent are found.
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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 Bessona
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