Seket Surname
Approximately 154 people bear this surname
Seket Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Algeria | 62 | 1:623,090 | 39,491 |
| Papua New Guinea | 24 | 1:339,738 | 45,241 |
| Netherlands | 19 | 1:888,799 | 62,169 |
| Israel | 16 | 1:534,852 | 39,210 |
| Indonesia | 7 | 1:18,892,742 | 520,071 |
| Ivory Coast | 6 | 1:3,845,205 | 48,272 |
| Tunisia | 5 | 1:122,125 | 16,050 |
| Mauritania | 5 | 1:818,973 | 23,459 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Croatia | 1 | 1:4,228,604 | 99,289 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
The alternate forms: Şeket (1) & Sekèt (1) are calculated separately.
Seket (67) may also be a first name.
Seket Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Seket Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Seket (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺳﻜﺖ, Hindi: सेकेत, Marathi: सेकेत, Russian: Секет) occurs most in Algeria. It may also be rendered in the variant forms: Şeket or Sekèt. Click here for further possible spellings of Seket.
How Common Is The Last Name Seket? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,409,418th most widely held family name world-wide, borne by around 1 in 47,321,727 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 49 percent of Seket reside; 44 percent reside in North Africa and 44 percent reside in Mahgreb. Seket is also the 1,191,548th most common given name internationally, borne by 67 people.
Seket is most commonly used in Algeria, where it is carried by 62 people, or 1 in 623,090. In Algeria Seket is primarily concentrated in: Tébessa Province, where 100 percent are found. Excluding Algeria Seket exists in 16 countries. It is also common in Papua New Guinea, where 16 percent are found and The Netherlands, where 12 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Seket Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Seket in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺳﻜﺖ | skt | - |
| Seket in the Hindi language | ||
| सेकेत | seketa | - |
| Seket in the Marathi language | ||
| सेकेत | seketa | 50 |
| सेकेट | seketa | 50 |
| Seket in the Russian language | ||
| Секет | seket | - |
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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 Seket
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