Sackey Surname
Approximately 75,344 people bear this surname
Sackey Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 72,319 | 1:374 | 42 |
| United States | 811 | 1:446,928 | 38,345 |
| England | 719 | 1:77,494 | 8,720 |
| Liberia | 670 | 1:6,580 | 784 |
| Swaziland | 202 | 1:6,427 | 396 |
| Nigeria | 156 | 1:1,135,530 | 46,612 |
| Egypt | 122 | 1:753,572 | 38,342 |
| Canada | 64 | 1:575,712 | 47,839 |
| United States Virgin Islands | 52 | 1:2,123 | 361 |
| Australia | 44 | 1:613,539 | 43,545 |
| Germany | 24 | 1:3,354,394 | 150,996 |
| Netherlands | 20 | 1:844,359 | 60,801 |
| Ireland | 15 | 1:313,929 | 10,911 |
| Scotland | 15 | 1:356,921 | 15,763 |
| Austria | 12 | 1:709,620 | 61,025 |
| Belgium | 11 | 1:1,045,149 | 78,166 |
| Ivory Coast | 10 | 1:2,307,123 | 39,352 |
| Qatar | 9 | 1:262,000 | 30,726 |
| Italy | 9 | 1:6,795,188 | 113,457 |
| China | 6 | 1:227,886,928 | 11,701 |
| Norway | 4 | 1:1,285,572 | 69,185 |
| Sierra Leone | 4 | 1:1,772,408 | 958 |
| South Africa | 4 | 1:13,544,426 | 222,367 |
| Iceland | 4 | 1:95,022 | 4,787 |
| Sweden | 3 | 1:3,282,252 | 190,759 |
| Namibia | 3 | 1:803,134 | 15,170 |
| Turkey | 2 | 1:38,910,711 | 171,901 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| Wales | 2 | 1:1,547,266 | 39,871 |
| Finland | 2 | 1:2,748,351 | 72,663 |
| Malaysia | 2 | 1:14,747,112 | 316,340 |
| Denmark | 2 | 1:2,822,358 | 76,882 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Eritrea | 1 | 1:4,751,901 | 911 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
| Gambia | 1 | 1:1,923,451 | 1,043 |
| Northern Ireland | 1 | 1:1,845,036 | 20,648 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 1 | 1:1,135,674 | 984 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Botswana | 1 | 1:2,186,929 | 30,250 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 1:5,637,083 | 32,436 |
| Moldova | 1 | 1:3,561,368 | 78,271 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 6 | 1:4,062,562 | 101,150 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:3,743,216 | 32,299 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 17 | 1:2,954,040 | 135,915 |
Sackey (1,191) may also be a first name.
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Sackey Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sackey Come From? nationality or country of origin
Sackey is held by more people in Ghana than any other country or territory. It may also be rendered as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Sackey? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 7,536th most commonly occurring family name on a worldwide basis, borne by approximately 1 in 96,724 people. The surname Sackey is mostly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Sackey live; 97 percent live in West Africa and 96 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Sackey is also the 229,692nd most frequent given name globally. It is borne by 1,191 people.
The last name Sackey is most frequent in Ghana, where it is borne by 72,319 people, or 1 in 374. Outside of Ghana Sackey occurs in 51 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 1 percent live and England, where 1 percent live.
Sackey Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Sackey has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the surname grew 4,771 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it grew 11,983 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Scotland it grew 1,500 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Sackey Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Sackey last name are 40.67% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 93.9% registered with the party.
The amount Sackey earn in different countries varies markedly. In Norway they earn 42.55% less than the national average, earning 198,839 kr per year; in United States they earn 7.24% more than the national average, earning $46,272 USD per year and in Canada they earn 3.34% more than the national average, earning $51,342 CAD per year.
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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 Sackey
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