Sehla Surname
Approximately 273 people bear this surname
Sehla Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Algeria | 144 | 1:268,275 | 27,771 |
| Zimbabwe | 36 | 1:428,840 | 37,622 |
| Mauritania | 35 | 1:116,996 | 6,922 |
| Papua New Guinea | 18 | 1:452,984 | 57,838 |
| South Africa | 12 | 1:4,514,809 | 137,638 |
| India | 6 | 1:127,844,230 | 863,365 |
| Qatar | 6 | 1:393,000 | 55,922 |
| Pakistan | 5 | 1:35,728,777 | 102,388 |
| Egypt | 4 | 1:22,983,938 | 62,368 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Lesotho | 1 | 1:2,032,558 | 23,402 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Uzbekistan | 1 | 1:30,929,142 | 67,786 |
The alternate forms: Şehla (157) are calculated separately.
Sehla (1,400) may also be a first name.
Sehla Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sehla Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Sehla (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺳﻬﻠﻪ, Hindi: सेहला) is more frequently found in Algeria than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms: Şehla. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Sehla? popularity and diffusion
Sehla is the 956,400th most frequently occurring last name in the world It is held by around 1 in 26,694,307 people. The last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 86 percent of Sehla live; 54 percent live in North Africa and 53 percent live in Mahgreb. Sehla is also the 208,997th most common given name on earth It is held by 1,400 people.
The last name is most common in Algeria, where it is borne by 144 people, or 1 in 268,275. In Algeria it is mostly found in: Saïda Province, where 57 percent reside, Mascara Province, where 42 percent reside and Boumerdès Province, where 1 percent reside. Beside Algeria this surname exists in 14 countries. It is also common in Zimbabwe, where 13 percent reside and Mauritania, where 13 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Sehla Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Sehla in the Hindi language | ||
| सेहला | sehala | 92.31 |
| सहला | sahala | 7.69 |
| Sehla in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺳﻬﻠﻪ | shlh | 73.84 |
| ﺳﻬﻠﺔ | shlt | 17.3 |
| ﺳﻬﻞ | shl | 7.17 |
| ﺳﻬﻠـﺔ | shlt | 0.42 |
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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 Sehla
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