Sankhat Surname

27,743rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 19,385 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
India
Highest density in:
India

Sankhat Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Sankhat Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
India19,2391:39,8702,796
Thailand1451:487,16185,241
Malaysia11:29,494,225409,885

Sankhat (1,188) may also be a first name.

Sankhat Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Sankhat Come From? nationality or country of origin

Sankhat (Hindi: संखत, Marathi: सांखट) has its highest incidence in India. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Sankhat? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 27,743rd most widely held surname world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 375,937 people. The last name Sankhat occurs predominantly in Asia, where 100 percent of Sankhat live; 99 percent live in South Asia and 99 percent live in Indo-South Asia. Sankhat is also the 230,060th most frequently held first name internationally, borne by 1,188 people.

The surname Sankhat is most common in India, where it is carried by 19,239 people, or 1 in 39,870. In India it is mostly concentrated in: Gujarat, where 100 percent live, Maharashtra, where 0 percent live and Haryana, where 0 percent live. Not including India this surname occurs in 2 countries. It is also common in Thailand, where 1 percent live and Malaysia, where 0 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

Sankhat Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Sankhat in the Hindi language
संखतsankhata-
Sankhat in the Marathi language
सांखटsankhata72.73
सांकटsankata9.09
संखातsankhata9.09
साखटsakhata9.09

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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 Sankhat
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