El Bechir Surname
Approximately 7,004 people bear this surname
El Bechir Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 6,943 | 1:590 | 81 |
| France | 46 | 1:1,443,972 | 140,296 |
| Spain | 6 | 1:7,792,006 | 100,283 |
| Algeria | 4 | 1:9,657,888 | 64,782 |
| Tunisia | 4 | 1:152,656 | 17,743 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
The alternate forms: El Béchir (33) are calculated separately.
El Bechir (1,520) may also be a first name.
El Bechir Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name El Bechir Come From? nationality or country of origin
El Bechir (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻟﺒﺸﻴﺮ) is most common in Mauritania. It may appear as a variant: El Béchir. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name El Bechir? popularity and diffusion
The last name El Bechir is the 70,571st most commonly occurring surname globally It is held by around 1 in 1,040,483 people. The surname is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of El Bechir are found; 99 percent are found in West Africa and 99 percent are found in Senegambia Africa. It is also the 199,124th most frequently held given name worldwide. It is borne by 1,520 people.
The last name is most numerous in Mauritania, where it is held by 6,943 people, or 1 in 590. In Mauritania El Bechir is primarily concentrated in: Hodh Chargui Region, where 23 percent live, Nouakchott-Nord Region, where 16 percent live and Nouakchott-Sud Region, where 13 percent live. Excluding Mauritania it is found in 5 countries. It is also found in France, where 1 percent live and Spain, where 0 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Béchir | 96 | 33 | / |
| El Bechire | 95 | 282 | / |
| El Becheir | 95 | 7 | / |
| El Beichir | 95 | 2 | / |
| El Bechier | 95 | 2 | / |
| El Bachir | 89 | 12,998 | / |
| El-Bechir | 89 | 40 | / |
| El Beshir | 89 | 4 | / |
| El Bichir | 89 | 1 | / |
| El Becher | 89 | 1 | / |
| El Bacheir | 84 | 2 | / |
| El Bachier | 84 | 1 | / |
| El Bicheir | 84 | 1 | / |
| El Bechere | 84 | 1 | / |
| El Bekir | 82 | 1 | / |
| El Bachyr | 78 | 170 | / |
| El-Beshir | 78 | 17 | / |
| El-Bachir | 78 | 10 | / |
| El Bacher | 78 | 10 | / |
| El Beckayr | 74 | 1 | / |
| El Bekre | 71 | 6 | / |
| El Biker | 71 | 2 | / |
| El Vezir | 71 | 1 | / |
| El Vezeir | 67 | 1 | / |
| El Bikre | 59 | 7 | / |
El Bechir Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| El Bechir in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻟﺒﺸﻴﺮ | albshyr | 99.42 |
| ﻟﺒﺸﻴﺮ | lbshyr | 0.18 |
| ﺍﻟﺒﺸﺮ | albshr | 0.13 |
| ﺍﺍﻟﺒﺸﻴﺮ | aalbshyr | 0.09 |
| ﺍﺑﺸﻴﺮ | abshyr | 0.04 |
| ﺍﻟﻴﺸﻴﺮ | alyshyr | 0.04 |
| ﺍﻟﺒﺸﺒﺮ | albshbr | 0.04 |
| ﺍﻣﺒﺎﺭﻙ | ambark | 0.04 |
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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 El Bechir
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