Rakah Surname
Approximately 550 people bear this surname
Rakah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pakistan | 225 | 1:793,973 | 11,318 |
| Israel | 173 | 1:49,466 | 6,521 |
| Algeria | 101 | 1:382,491 | 33,409 |
| Malaysia | 14 | 1:2,106,730 | 83,604 |
| India | 12 | 1:63,922,115 | 578,870 |
| Panama | 9 | 1:434,695 | 8,518 |
| Indonesia | 6 | 1:22,041,532 | 555,748 |
| Saudi Arabia | 4 | 1:7,713,954 | 37,548 |
| Afghanistan | 2 | 1:16,076,592 | 43,178 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
Rakah (1,129) may also be a first name.
Rakah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Rakah Come From? nationality or country of origin
Rakah occurs more in Pakistan more than any other country/territory. It may also occur in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Rakah? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 572,911th most frequent surname internationally. It is borne by around 1 in 13,250,083 people. Rakah occurs mostly in Asia, where 79 percent of Rakah are found; 43 percent are found in South Asia and 41 percent are found in Islamic South Asia. Rakah is also the 237,037th most frequent first name on earth, borne by 1,129 people.
This last name is most commonly used in Pakistan, where it is borne by 225 people, or 1 in 793,973. In Pakistan it is most frequent in: Punjab, where 92 percent live, Sindh, where 4 percent live and Islamabad Capital Territory, where 2 percent live. Besides Pakistan this surname occurs in 12 countries. It is also found in Israel, where 31 percent live and Algeria, where 18 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 Rakah
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