Salikane Surname
Approximately 20 people bear this surname
Salikane Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 10 | 1:409,486 | 16,302 |
| Lesotho | 9 | 1:225,840 | 14,831 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Salikane Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Salikane Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Salikane (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺳﺎﻟﻜﺎﻥ) occurs most in Mauritania. It may be found in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Salikane? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 4,427,875th most commonly occurring family name worldwide It is held by approximately 1 in 364,377,296 people. The surname Salikane occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Salikane are found; 50 percent are found in Southern Africa and 50 percent are found in South Bantu Africa.
This last name is most widely held in Mauritania, where it is held by 10 people, or 1 in 409,486. In Mauritania it is mostly concentrated in: Assaba Region, where 90 percent live and Gorgol Region, where 10 percent live. Beside Mauritania this last name exists in 2 countries. It is also common in Lesotho, where 45 percent live and South Africa, where 5 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Salikane Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Salikane in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺳﺎﻟﻜﺎﻥ | salkan | 66.67 |
| ﺳﺎﻟﻴﻜﺎﻥ | salykan | 33.33 |
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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 Salikane
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