Sankita Surname

5,057,639th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 15 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
India
Highest density in:
Japan

Sankita Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Sankita Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
India111:69,733,217610,955
Japan31:42,614,76459,022
DR Congo11:73,879,570260,543

Sankita (717) may also be a first name.

Sankita Last Name Facts

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

Sankita (Bengali: সাংকিতা, Hindi: संकिता, Marathi: संकीता, Oriya: ସିତା) is borne by more people in India than any other country/territory. It can also appear as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of Sankita.

How Common Is The Last Name Sankita? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 5,057,639th most commonly used surname on a global scale, borne by approximately 1 in 485,836,394 people. The surname Sankita is mostly found in Asia, where 93 percent of Sankita reside; 73 percent reside in South Asia and 73 percent reside in Indo-South Asia. Sankita is also the 308,274th most frequent first name globally, borne by 717 people.

This surname is most prevalent in India, where it is carried by 11 people, or 1 in 69,733,217. In India it is mostly concentrated in: Telangana, where 64 percent are found, Andhra Pradesh, where 9 percent are found and Himachal Pradesh, where 9 percent are found. Without taking into account India this last name exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in Japan, where 20 percent are found and The DR Congo, where 7 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

Sankita Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Sankita in the Marathi language
संकीताsankita82.81
शंकरsankara9.38
संकेतsanketa1.56
शांतारामsantarama1.56
सितषsitasa1.56
सांकीताsankita1.56
Sankita in the Hindi language
संकिताsankita81.67
संकीताsankita13.33
सांकिताsankita3.33
सन्किताsankita1.67
Sankita in the Oriya language
ସିତାsita68.75
ୀତାita31.25
Sankita in the Bengali language
সাংকিতাsankita33.33
সঙ্কিতাsankita33.33
সংকিতাsankita33.33

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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 Sankita
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