Sarki Surname
Approximately 289,073 people bear this surname
Sarki Surname User-submission:
Means leader of a Muslim community. Mostly found in Hausa-speaking areas on the southern border of the Sahara dessert in Western Africa.
For example the "Serikin-Hausa" of Lagos means the leader of the Hausa people in the city of Lagos.
Read More About This SurnameSarki Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nepal | 224,554 | 1:127 | 25 |
| Nigeria | 40,797 | 1:4,342 | 583 |
| India | 12,781 | 1:60,016 | 4,100 |
| Niger | 3,924 | 1:4,891 | 445 |
| Pakistan | 3,665 | 1:48,743 | 2,023 |
| Cameroon | 806 | 1:25,768 | 3,513 |
| Indonesia | 610 | 1:216,802 | 20,306 |
| Qatar | 521 | 1:4,526 | 467 |
| Malaysia | 346 | 1:85,243 | 5,974 |
| Afghanistan | 257 | 1:125,110 | 2,925 |
| Egypt | 214 | 1:429,606 | 25,756 |
| Bhutan | 205 | 1:3,005 | 192 |
| United States | 88 | 1:4,118,852 | 221,730 |
| United Arab Emirates | 85 | 1:107,791 | 9,280 |
| Benin | 72 | 1:143,550 | 15,098 |
| Iran | 30 | 1:2,559,417 | 82,750 |
| England | 27 | 1:2,063,632 | 79,942 |
| Russia | 12 | 1:12,010,255 | 361,204 |
| Papua New Guinea | 10 | 1:815,372 | 88,623 |
| Ghana | 9 | 1:3,002,299 | 11,581 |
| Argentina | 7 | 1:6,106,202 | 178,634 |
| South Africa | 4 | 1:13,544,426 | 222,367 |
| Morocco | 4 | 1:8,619,025 | 73,251 |
| Chad | 4 | 1:3,398,050 | 7,703 |
| Finland | 3 | 1:1,832,234 | 57,803 |
| Thailand | 3 | 1:23,546,115 | 908,588 |
| Syria | 3 | 1:6,433,674 | 16,197 |
| Sweden | 3 | 1:3,282,252 | 190,759 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Philippines | 2 | 1:50,619,112 | 341,003 |
| Bulgaria | 2 | 1:3,489,452 | 64,958 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Taiwan | 1 | 1:23,444,746 | 93,622 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Vanuatu | 1 | 1:263,276 | 2,086 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Northern Cyprus | 1 | 1:319,011 | 10,202 |
| Estonia | 1 | 1:1,321,804 | 40,178 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Namibia | 1 | 1:2,409,401 | 19,676 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 1:25,109,342 | 694,541 |
The alternate forms: Şarki (201), Särki (46) & Šarki (11) are calculated separately.
Sarki (34,551) may also be a first name.
Sarki Surname Meaning
User-submitted Reference
Means leader of a Muslim community. Mostly found in Hausa-speaking areas on the southern border of the Sahara dessert in Western Africa.
For example the "Serikin-Hausa" of Lagos means the leader of the Hausa people in the city of Lagos.
Saraki is a Yoruba variant of this name often found in areas where there is significant contact between Yoruba and Hausa tribes especially in the middle belt of Nigeria.
- fadalemoSarki Demographics
Sarki Religious Adherence
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Religious Adherence
in Nigeria
Sarki Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sarki Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Sarki (Arabic: ساركي, Bengali: সার্কি, Hindi: सार्की, Marathi: साक, Oriya: ସାକିର୍, Russian: Сарки, Tibetan: སར་ཀི།) occurs most in Nepal. It can appear in the variant forms: Şarki, Särki or Šarki. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Sarki? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,897th most frequently held last name on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 25,210 people. This surname is predominantly found in Asia, where 84 percent of Sarki live; 84 percent live in South Asia and 82 percent live in Indo-South Asia. It is also the 24,969th most prevalent first name throughout the world, borne by 34,551 people.
It is most frequently held in Nepal, where it is carried by 224,554 people, or 1 in 127. In Nepal it is most frequent in: Gandaki, where 15 percent reside, Lumbini, where 10 percent reside and Seti, where 10 percent reside. Other than Nepal this surname is found in 53 countries. It is also found in Nigeria, where 14 percent reside and India, where 4 percent reside.
Sarki Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Sarki has changed over time. In The United States the number of people bearing the Sarki last name expanded 4,400 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Sarki Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those carrying the Sarki surname is chiefly Muslim (73%) in Nigeria.
In The United States those bearing the Sarki last name are 11.56% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 58.33% being registered with the party.
The amount Sarki earn in different countries varies notably. In South Africa they earn 55.72% more than the national average, earning R 370,056 per year and in United States they earn 31.89% more than the national average, earning $56,910 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Sarki Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Sarki in the Oriya language | ||
| ସାକିର୍ | sakir | - |
| Sarki in the Tibetan language | ||
| སར་ཀི། | sarki | 83.59 |
| སར་ཀི་ | sarki | 9.38 |
| གསར་སྐྱིད། | sarkyi | 1.56 |
| སར་སྐྱིད་ | sarkyi | 1.56 |
| སར་སྐྱི། | sarkyi | 0.78 |
| སཡ་ཀི། | sayaki | 0.78 |
| སར་ཀིི། | sarki | 0.78 |
| སརཀི། | sarki | 0.78 |
| སར་ཀ།ི། | sarka | 0.78 |
| Sarki in the Hindi language | ||
| सार्की | sarki | 70.87 |
| सरकी | saraki | 12.62 |
| सारकी | saraki | 11.65 |
| सरकि | saraki | 2.91 |
| सर्की | sarki | 1.94 |
| Sarki in the Bengali language | ||
| সার্কি | sarki | 50 |
| সর্কী | sarki | 37.5 |
| সার্কী | sarki | 12.5 |
| Sarki in the Marathi language | ||
| साक | saka | 40 |
| सारकी | saraki | 20 |
| सक | saka | 14.44 |
| सरकी | saraki | 13.33 |
| सारखी | sarakhi | 6.67 |
| सारथी | sarathi | 4.44 |
| सकी | saki | 1.11 |
| Sarki in the Russian language | ||
| Сарки | sarki | - |
| Sarki in the Arabic language | ||
| ساركي | sarky | - |
| سركي | srky | - |
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