Seketa Surname
Approximately 653 people bear this surname
Seketa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 236 | 1:229,567 | 23,799 |
| Zambia | 124 | 1:127,822 | 9,586 |
| United States | 114 | 1:3,179,464 | 183,182 |
| DR Congo | 62 | 1:1,191,606 | 73,277 |
| Zimbabwe | 28 | 1:551,366 | 43,741 |
| Ukraine | 23 | 1:1,979,248 | 140,199 |
| Argentina | 10 | 1:4,274,341 | 152,056 |
| Egypt | 9 | 1:10,215,084 | 48,153 |
| Australia | 6 | 1:4,499,284 | 146,780 |
| Canada | 6 | 1:6,140,932 | 260,641 |
| Namibia | 5 | 1:481,880 | 11,140 |
| Uganda | 5 | 1:7,807,856 | 134,263 |
| Ethiopia | 4 | 1:24,386,566 | 19,165 |
| Germany | 4 | 1:20,126,365 | 436,245 |
| Tanzania | 4 | 1:13,235,403 | 84,310 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 3 | 1:1,178,801 | 15,876 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1:23,089,950 | 83,168 |
| Solomon Islands | 2 | 1:290,014 | 19,875 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Croatia | 1 | 1:4,228,604 | 99,289 |
| Lesotho | 1 | 1:2,032,558 | 23,402 |
| Latvia | 1 | 1:2,050,046 | 60,295 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
The alternate forms: Šeketa (574) are calculated separately.
Seketa (169) may also be a first name.
Seketa Demographics
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Seketa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Seketa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Seketa (Russian: Секета) occurs in South Africa more than any other country or territory. It may also be found in the variant forms: Šeketa. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Seketa? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 503,100th most widely held last name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by around 1 in 11,160,101 people. This last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 74 percent of Seketa are found; 60 percent are found in Southern Africa and 60 percent are found in South Bantu Africa. Seketa is also the 703,581st most frequently used first name internationally, held by 169 people.
Seketa is most frequently occurring in South Africa, where it is borne by 236 people, or 1 in 229,567. In South Africa it is primarily concentrated in: Gauteng, where 55 percent reside, Limpopo, where 42 percent reside and KwaZulu-Natal, where 1 percent reside. Not including South Africa this surname occurs in 23 countries. It is also common in Zambia, where 19 percent reside and The United States, where 17 percent reside.
Seketa Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Seketa last name are 31.28% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 78.05% being registered to vote for the party.
The amount Seketa earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 58.92% less than the national average, earning R 97,620 per year and in United States they earn 2.53% less than the national average, earning $42,057 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Seketa Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Seketa in the Russian language | ||
| Секета | seketa | - |
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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 Seketa
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