Sekalala Surname

1,428,594th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 151 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Uganda
Highest density in:
Uganda

Sekalala Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Sekalala Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Uganda1361:287,05420,278
Canada91:4,093,955205,175
England21:27,859,030389,889
United States21:181,229,4661,556,795
India11:767,065,3821,851,717
Sudan11:37,510,19514,259

Sekalala (17) may also be a first name.

Sekalala Last Name Facts

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

Sekalala occurs in Uganda more than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Sekalala? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 1,428,594th most frequently occurring last name on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 48,261,893 people. The surname Sekalala is mostly found in Africa, where 91 percent of Sekalala are found; 90 percent are found in East Africa and 89 percent are found in East Bantu Africa. It is also the 2,694,839th most frequent first name on earth, borne by 17 people.

The surname is most frequently held in Uganda, where it is borne by 136 people, or 1 in 287,054. In Uganda Sekalala is most common in: Kampala District, where 29 percent reside, Wakiso District, where 21 percent reside and Buyende District, where 9 percent reside. Barring Uganda this last name occurs in 5 countries. It also occurs in Canada, where 6 percent reside and England, where 1 percent reside.

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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 Sekalala
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