Sankaya Surname
Approximately 25 people bear this surname
Sankaya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 7 | 1:2,412,454 | 94,797 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Norway | 3 | 1:1,714,095 | 79,528 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
The alternate forms: Şankaya (362) are calculated separately.
Sankaya (15) may also be a first name.
Sankaya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sankaya Come From? nationality or country of origin
Sankaya is found most in The Netherlands. It can be rendered as a variant: Şankaya. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Sankaya? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 3,957,383rd most commonly held last name on a global scale It is held by around 1 in 291,501,837 people. The surname is primarily found in Europe, where 60 percent of Sankaya are found; 36 percent are found in Western Europe and 32 percent are found in Germanic Europe. Sankaya is also the 2,900,335th most commonly occurring given name throughout the world. It is borne by 15 people.
This last name is most common in The Netherlands, where it is borne by 7 people, or 1 in 2,412,454. In The Netherlands it is most numerous in: North Holland, where 100 percent are found. Other than The Netherlands this surname is found in 10 countries. It also occurs in The DR Congo, where 16 percent are found and The United States, where 16 percent are found.
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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 Sankaya
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