Bhakra Surname
Approximately 115 people bear this surname
Bhakra Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 113 | 1:6,788,189 | 152,128 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Bhakra (72) may also be a first name.
Bhakra Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bhakra Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Bhakra (Hindi: भकरा, Oriya: ଭକ'ା) has its highest incidence in India. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Bhakra? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,701,480th most frequent last name on earth, held by around 1 in 63,369,964 people. The last name Bhakra is mostly found in Asia, where 99 percent of Bhakra reside; 99 percent reside in South Asia and 98 percent reside in Indo-South Asia. Bhakra is also the 1,143,416th most commonly occurring first name world-wide, held by 72 people.
The surname is most frequently held in India, where it is held by 113 people, or 1 in 6,788,189. In India it is mostly concentrated in: Odisha, where 47 percent reside, Bihar, where 36 percent reside and West Bengal, where 12 percent reside. Aside from India it occurs in 2 countries. It also occurs in Pakistan, where 1 percent reside and The United States, where 1 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Bhakra Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Bhakra in the Oriya language | ||
| ଭକ'ା | bhaka'a | 50.98 |
| ଭକା | bhaka | 27.45 |
| ଭକ | bhaka | 15.69 |
| ଭାକା | bhaka | 3.92 |
| ଭତ'ା | bhata'a | 1.96 |
| Bhakra in the Hindi language | ||
| भकरा | bhakara | 40 |
| भक्रा | bhakra | 40 |
| भाकरा | bhakara | 20 |
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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
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- 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 Bhakra
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