Sankie Surname
Approximately 105 people bear this surname
Sankie Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Botswana | 72 | 1:30,374 | 6,067 |
| Papua New Guinea | 13 | 1:627,209 | 74,307 |
| Cameroon | 6 | 1:3,461,511 | 126,814 |
| Scotland | 5 | 1:1,070,763 | 31,189 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotland | 7 | 1:534,745 | 14,325 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1:50,218,684 | 817,899 |
Sankie (1,203) may also be a first name.
Sankie Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sankie Come From? nationality or country of origin
Sankie is more commonly found in Botswana than any other country/territory. It may be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Sankie? popularity and diffusion
Sankie is the 1,795,579th most frequently used surname internationally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 69,405,199 people. The last name Sankie occurs mostly in Africa, where 79 percent of Sankie live; 70 percent live in Southern Africa and 70 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 228,372nd most frequently occurring first name on earth, borne by 1,203 people.
It is most frequently held in Botswana, where it is borne by 72 people, or 1 in 30,374. Beside Botswana it is found in 11 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 12 percent live and Cameroon, where 6 percent live.
Sankie Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Sankie has changed over time. In Scotland the share of the population with the surname fell 29 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in The United States it grew 200 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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 Sankie
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