Bismallah Surname

3,017,195th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 42 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
South Africa
Highest density in:
South Africa

Bismallah Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Bismallah Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
South Africa181:3,009,872112,058
Pakistan171:10,508,46449,949
India61:127,844,230863,365
England11:55,718,059489,080

Bismallah (368) may also be a first name.

Bismallah Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Bismallah Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Bismallah (Hindi: बिस्मल्लाह) occurs more in South Africa more than any other country/territory. It can occur as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Bismallah? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 3,017,195th most commonly held surname globally It is held by approximately 1 in 173,512,998 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Asia, where 55 percent of Bismallah are found; 55 percent are found in South Asia and 43 percent are found in South Bantu Africa. Bismallah is also the 453,251st most frequently held first name globally, borne by 368 people.

Bismallah is most frequently held in South Africa, where it is carried by 18 people, or 1 in 3,009,872. In South Africa Bismallah is primarily found in: KwaZulu-Natal, where 56 percent are found, Gauteng, where 39 percent are found and Eastern Cape, where 6 percent are found. Other than South Africa this last name exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in Pakistan, where 40 percent are found and India, where 14 percent are found.

Bismallah Last Name Statistics demography

Bismallah earn more than double the average income. In South Africa they earn 169.73% more than the national average, earning R 640,992 per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

Bismallah Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Bismallah in the Hindi language
बिस्मल्लाहbismallaha58.97
बिस्माल्लाहbismallaha35.9
बिसमल्लाहbisamallaha5.13

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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 Bismallah
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