El Berka Surname

1,746,159th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 110 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Mauritania
Highest density in:
Mauritania

El Berka Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

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El Berka 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
Mauritania1081:37,9152,975
Algeria21:19,315,77697,017

The alternate forms: El Berkã (1) are calculated separately.

El Berka Last Name Facts

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

The surname El Berka (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻟﺒﺮﻛﻪ) is held by more people in Mauritania than any other country or territory. It may be found as a variant: El Berkã. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.

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

The surname is the 1,746,159th most prevalent family name on a global scale, borne by approximately 1 in 66,250,417 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of El Berka are found; 98 percent are found in West Africa and 98 percent are found in Senegambia Africa.

The last name is most common in Mauritania, where it is held by 108 people, or 1 in 37,915. In Mauritania El Berka is mostly concentrated in: Brakna Region, where 40 percent are found, Assaba Region, where 27 percent are found and Hodh Chargui Region, where 16 percent are found. Besides Mauritania this surname is found in one country. It also occurs in Algeria, where 2 percent are found.

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 Berkã961/
El Bercka9462/
El Berkha942/
El Berrka941/
El Barka884,816/
El Berki88171/
El Berke8831/
El Barkha8250/
El Bercke824/
El Ouerka824/
El Barkca821/
El Berkhe821/
El Baarka821/
El-Barka7581/
El Barko753/
El Barca753/
El-Barcka7122/
El Berqui714/
El-Barqa631/
El Birche591/
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El Berka Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
El Berka in the Hassaniya-Arabic language
ﺍﻟﺒﺮﻛﻪalbrkh81.48
ﺍﻟﺒﺮﻛﺔalbrkt11.11
ﺍﻟﺒﺮﻙalbrk5.56

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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 Berka
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