N'Bessa Surname

1,257,535th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 183 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Benin
Highest density in:
Benin

N'Bessa Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

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N'Bessa 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
Benin1811:57,1037,085
Ivory Coast11:23,071,23276,679
Mauritania11:4,094,86338,869

N'Bessa Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name N'Bessa Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name N'Bessa (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺃﻧﺒﺼﻪ) is found most in Benin. It may also be found in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of N'Bessa click here.

How Common Is The Last Name N'Bessa? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 1,257,535th most frequently used family name in the world, held by around 1 in 39,822,655 people. N'Bessa is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of N'Bessa live; 100 percent live in West Africa and 99 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.

The surname is most frequent in Benin, where it is carried by 181 people, or 1 in 57,103. In Benin N'Bessa is most prevalent in: Collines Department, where 74 percent are found, Borgou Department, where 16 percent are found and Littoral Department, where 5 percent are found. Outside of Benin N'Bessa is found in 2 countries. It also occurs in The Ivory Coast, where 1 percent are found and Mauritania, where 1 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
Nbessa9264/
N'Besso869/
N'Bassa861/
N'Bgesso802/
Mbessa772,789/
Nwessa774/
Nbassa772/
Nbossa771/
Nbessi771/
Nbeisa771/
Mbessas719/
N'Bissi711/
Nvessah711/
Nbeasaa711/
Mbessah711/
Mbeussa711/
Mbesa677,486/
Nuesa67194/
Nwesa6730/
Nbasa675/
Nbesi672/
Nbese672/
Nbisa672/
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N'Bessa Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
N'Bessa in the Hassaniya-Arabic language
ﺃﻧﺒﺼﻪanbsh-

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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 N'Bessa
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