El Bekaye Surname

313,034th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 1,201 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Mauritania
Highest density in:
Mauritania

El Bekaye Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

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El Bekaye Surname Distribution Map

By incidenceBy frequencyBy rank
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Mauritania1,1991:3,415417
Mali11:16,969,0354,067
Qatar11:2,357,99976,403

El Bekaye (1,582) may also be a first name.

El Bekaye Last Name Facts

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

The surname El Bekaye (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻟﺒﻜﺎﻱ) occurs in Mauritania more than any other country/territory. It can occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name El Bekaye? popularity and diffusion

It is the 313,034th most frequently held last name internationally, held by around 1 in 6,067,898 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of El Bekaye are found; 100 percent are found in West Africa and 100 percent are found in Senegambia Africa. El Bekaye is also the 194,449th most numerous first name world-wide. It is borne by 1,582 people.

The surname is most frequently held in Mauritania, where it is held by 1,199 people, or 1 in 3,415. In Mauritania it is mostly found in: Hodh Chargui Region, where 31 percent live, Nouakchott-Nord Region, where 20 percent live and Brakna Region, where 11 percent live. Other than Mauritania El Bekaye is found in 2 countries. It is also common in Mali, where 0 percent live and Qatar, where 0 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ASimilarity (high to low)Similarity (low to high)Prevalent jurisdiction A-ZPrevalent jurisdiction Z-A
SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
El Bekkaye95828/
El Beckaye9535/
El Beikaye959/
El Bekhaye958/
El Biekaye951/
El Bekay94455/
El Bekye941/
El Bekkay89626/
El Bekaie89151/
El Beckay8928/
El Becaye8915/
El Bekhay897/
El Bakaye897/
El Beikay891/
El-Bekaye891/
El Beekkay844/
El Bakkaye841/
El Beikhay841/
El Bakay82284/
El Bekai82140/
El Becay8211/
El Bekie824/
El Bekey822/
El Bikay821/
El Bekkai78566/
El Bakkay78207/
El Bakoye7819/
El Backay781/
El Bokai7123/
El-Bekai7113/
El Bakai719/
El Bikai712/
El Bakey711/
El-Bikay711/
El Bakiyah634/
El Vekheih631/
El Bekkioui605/
El-Bikai5910/
El Bikou598/
El-Beqai592/
El-Bakhey561/
El-Bikaai561/
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El Bekaye Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
El Bekaye in the Hassaniya-Arabic language
ﺍﻟﺒﻜﺎﻱalbkay96.96
ﺍﻟﺒﻜﺎﻯalbkay2.03
ﺍﻟﺒﻜﺎﻳﻪalbkayh0.63
ﺍﻟﺒﻜﺎﻳﺔalbkayt0.25
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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 Bekaye
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