Brayka Surname
Approximately 80 people bear this surname
Brayka Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 61 | 1:67,129 | 4,615 |
| Niger | 12 | 1:1,599,335 | 32,126 |
| Morocco | 4 | 1:8,619,025 | 73,251 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Brayka (12) may also be a first name.
Brayka Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Brayka Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Brayka (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﺑﺮﻳﻜﻪ) is borne by more people in Mauritania than any other country/territory. It may appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Brayka? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 2,106,139th most commonly occurring surname world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 91,094,324 people. The last name is mostly found in Africa, where 96 percent of Brayka reside; 91 percent reside in West Africa and 76 percent reside in Senegambia Africa. Brayka is also the 3,306,491st most frequently occurring first name at a global level, borne by 12 people.
The surname Brayka is most numerous in Mauritania, where it is held by 61 people, or 1 in 67,129. In Mauritania it is most numerous in: Assaba Region, where 82 percent live, Brakna Region, where 11 percent live and Trarza Region, where 3 percent live. Excluding Mauritania this last name exists in 5 countries. It is also common in Niger, where 15 percent live and Morocco, where 5 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Brayka Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Brayka in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﺑﺮﻳﻜﻪ | abrykh | 70.83 |
| ﺍﺑﺮﻳﻚ | abryk | 20.83 |
| ﺑﺮﻳﻜﻪ | brykh | 4.17 |
| ﺍﺑﻴﺮﻳﻚ | abyryk | 4.17 |
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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 Brayka
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