Beşken Surname
Approximately 403 people bear this surname
Beşken Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turkey | 402 | 1:193,586 | 14,361 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Besken (106) are calculated separately.
Beşken Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Beşken Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Beşken occurs in Turkey more than any other country or territory. It may also be rendered as a variant: Besken. For other potential spellings of Beşken click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Beşken? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 722,496th most widely held last name throughout the world, borne by approximately 1 in 18,083,240 people. The surname Beşken is predominantly found in Asia, where 86 percent of Beşken live; 86 percent live in West Asia and 86 percent live in Anatolia and Highlands.
This surname is most commonly held in Turkey, where it is borne by 402 people, or 1 in 193,586. In Turkey Beşken is most frequent in: Gaziantep Province, where 39 percent reside, Edirne Province, where 9 percent reside and Kahramanmaras Province, where 8 percent reside. Apart from Turkey Beşken is found in one country. It is also common in The United States, where 0 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 Beşken
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