Bige Surname
Approximately 5,405 people bear this surname
Bige Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Angola | 3,549 | 1:7,605 | 975 |
| DR Congo | 616 | 1:119,934 | 13,059 |
| Turkey | 388 | 1:200,571 | 14,739 |
| Hungary | 271 | 1:36,222 | 3,947 |
| Papua New Guinea | 183 | 1:44,556 | 5,479 |
| France | 155 | 1:428,534 | 62,172 |
| United States | 44 | 1:8,237,703 | 362,142 |
| Brazil | 35 | 1:6,116,409 | 148,801 |
| Argentina | 28 | 1:1,526,550 | 84,030 |
| Tanzania | 20 | 1:2,647,081 | 48,780 |
| Iran | 19 | 1:4,041,185 | 108,332 |
| India | 13 | 1:59,005,029 | 552,550 |
| Cameroon | 13 | 1:1,597,621 | 87,539 |
| Australia | 9 | 1:2,999,522 | 116,751 |
| Niger | 8 | 1:2,399,002 | 43,750 |
| Pakistan | 7 | 1:25,520,555 | 84,222 |
| Russia | 6 | 1:24,020,509 | 493,300 |
| Netherlands | 5 | 1:3,377,435 | 111,911 |
| England | 4 | 1:13,929,515 | 290,718 |
| Nigeria | 4 | 1:44,285,690 | 437,567 |
| Ivory Coast | 3 | 1:7,690,411 | 57,263 |
| Canada | 3 | 1:12,281,864 | 364,614 |
| Slovakia | 3 | 1:1,778,817 | 104,392 |
| Taiwan | 3 | 1:7,814,915 | 41,694 |
| Spain | 2 | 1:23,376,018 | 128,922 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Dominican Republic | 1 | 1:10,432,932 | 36,508 |
| Panama | 1 | 1:3,912,258 | 17,195 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 14 | 1:3,587,049 | 158,810 |
The alternate forms: Bigé (4) are calculated separately.
Bige (1,575) may also be a first name.
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Bige Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bige Come From? nationality or country of origin
Bige (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺑﻴﻚ, Marathi: बीगे, Russian: Биге) is most common in Angola. It may also appear in the variant forms: Bigé. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Bige? popularity and diffusion
The surname Bige is the 88,839th most widely held last name worldwide It is held by around 1 in 1,348,297 people. Bige occurs mostly in Africa, where 78 percent of Bige live; 66 percent live in Southern Africa and 66 percent live in Luso-Southern Africa. It is also the 194,984th most prevalent given name world-wide, borne by 1,575 people.
The last name Bige is most widely held in Angola, where it is carried by 3,549 people, or 1 in 7,605. Aside from Angola Bige exists in 37 countries. It is also found in The DR Congo, where 11 percent live and Turkey, where 7 percent live.
Bige Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Bige has changed over time. In The United States the share of the population with the surname grew 314 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Bige Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Bige surname are 37.44% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 84.21% registered with the party.
Bige earn marginally less than the average income. In United States they earn 4.22% less than the national average, earning $41,326 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Bige Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Bige in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺑﻴﻚ | byk | - |
| Bige in the Marathi language | ||
| बीगे | bige | - |
| Bige in the Russian language | ||
| Биге | bige | - |
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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 Bige
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