Bé Surname
Approximately 244 people bear this surname
Bé Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portugal | 94 | 1:110,832 | 5,195 |
| Mauritania | 87 | 1:47,067 | 3,494 |
| France | 25 | 1:2,656,909 | 193,074 |
| Brazil | 7 | 1:30,582,047 | 441,004 |
| South Africa | 6 | 1:9,029,617 | 189,736 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Canada | 4 | 1:9,211,398 | 321,528 |
| Sweden | 3 | 1:3,282,252 | 190,759 |
| Spain | 2 | 1:23,376,018 | 128,922 |
| Ivory Coast | 2 | 1:11,535,616 | 61,806 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 1:8,443,588 | 136,641 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Slovakia | 1 | 1:5,336,450 | 140,422 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
The alternate forms: Be (172,234), Bê (17), Bè (6) & Bē (1) are calculated separately.
Bé (800) may also be a first name.
Bé Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bé Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Bé is carried by more people in Portugal than any other country or territory. It can appear as a variant: Be, Bê, Bè or Bē. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Bé? popularity and diffusion
Bé is the 1,032,007th most frequent surname world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 29,866,991 people. This surname occurs mostly in Europe, where 53 percent of Bé are found; 39 percent are found in Southwestern Europe and 39 percent are found in Iberian Europe. Bé is also the 289,333rd most frequently occurring first name at a global level, borne by 800 people.
The surname Bé is most frequently held in Portugal, where it is held by 94 people, or 1 in 110,832. Apart from Portugal it exists in 18 countries. It also occurs in Mauritania, where 36 percent live and France, where 10 percent live.
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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 Bé
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