Bedie Surname
Approximately 1,637 people bear this surname
Bedie Surname Distribution Map
Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
---|---|---|---|
Ghana | 693 | 1:38,991 | 4,481 |
Ivory Coast | 584 | 1:39,506 | 2,582 |
Benin | 139 | 1:74,357 | 8,912 |
Cameroon | 114 | 1:182,185 | 19,170 |
DR Congo | 41 | 1:1,801,941 | 95,514 |
Belgium | 15 | 1:766,443 | 63,354 |
Nigeria | 11 | 1:16,103,887 | 259,204 |
United States | 7 | 1:51,779,848 | 968,877 |
Kenya | 6 | 1:7,696,650 | 52,907 |
Northern Ireland | 5 | 1:369,007 | 15,220 |
France | 4 | 1:16,605,680 | 368,153 |
England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
Malaysia | 3 | 1:9,831,408 | 269,765 |
Mauritania | 3 | 1:1,364,954 | 27,355 |
Philippines | 2 | 1:50,619,112 | 341,003 |
Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
Libya | 1 | 1:6,243,974 | 6,186 |
Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
---|---|---|---|
England | 3 | 1:8,125,123 | 158,686 |
Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
---|---|---|---|
United States | 4 | 1:12,554,671 | 503,821 |
The alternate forms: Bédié (3) are calculated separately.
Bedie (529) may also be a first name.
Bedie Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bedie Come From? nationality or country of origin
Bedie (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺑﺞ) is carried by more people in Ghana than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms: Bédié. Click here for further potential spellings of Bedie.
How Common Is The Last Name Bedie? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 243,551st most frequently occurring last name worldwide, held by around 1 in 4,451,769 people. The last name Bedie occurs predominantly in Africa, where 87 percent of Bedie are found; 77 percent are found in West Africa and 76 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 366,789th most widespread first name in the world It is held by 529 people.
The surname Bedie is most widely held in Ghana, where it is carried by 693 people, or 1 in 38,991. Without taking into account Ghana this last name occurs in 21 countries. It is also common in The Ivory Coast, where 36 percent are found and Benin, where 8 percent are found.
Bedie Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Bedie has changed over time. In The United States the share of the population with the last name grew 175 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Phonetically Similar Names
Bedie Name Transliterations
Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
---|---|---|
Bedie in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
ﺑﺞ | bj | 25 |
ﺑﺪﻳﻰ | bdyy | 25 |
ﺑﺪﻱ | bdy | 25 |
ﺑﺠﻪ | bjh | 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
- 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 Bedie
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