Salkha Surname
Approximately 70 people bear this surname
Salkha Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pakistan | 33 | 1:5,413,451 | 34,034 |
| Indonesia | 24 | 1:5,510,383 | 253,014 |
| India | 10 | 1:76,706,538 | 639,611 |
| Ukraine | 3 | 1:15,174,232 | 372,501 |
Salkha (599) may also be a first name.
Salkha Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Salkha Come From? nationality or country of origin
Salkha (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻟﺴﺎﻟﻜﻪ, Hindi: सलखा, Oriya: ସାଲଖ, Russian: Салха) has its highest incidence in Pakistan. It can also occur in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Salkha? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 2,273,756th most widely held surname globally It is held by approximately 1 in 104,107,799 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Asia, where 96 percent of Salkha live; 61 percent live in South Asia and 47 percent live in Islamic South Asia. It is also the 341,591st most frequent first name on earth, held by 599 people.
The surname Salkha is most commonly held in Pakistan, where it is held by 33 people, or 1 in 5,413,451. In Pakistan it is most frequent in: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where 73 percent reside, Sindh, where 15 percent reside and Punjab, where 12 percent reside. Outside of Pakistan this last name exists in 3 countries. It is also common in Indonesia, where 34 percent reside and India, where 14 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Salkha Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Salkha in the Oriya language | ||
| ସାଲଖ | salakha | - |
| Salkha in the Hindi language | ||
| सलखा | salakha | 90 |
| सालखा | salakha | 10 |
| Salkha in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻟﺴﺎﻟﻜﻪ | alsalkh | 70.77 |
| ﺍﻟﺴﺎﻟﻜﺔ | alsalkt | 21.54 |
| ﺳﺎﻟﻜﻪ | salkh | 4.62 |
| ﺍﻟﺴﺎﻟﻚ | alsalk | 1.54 |
| ﺳﻠﻜﻬﺎ | slkha | 1.54 |
| Salkha in the Russian language | ||
| Салха | salha | - |
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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 Salkha
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