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
Seketa (Russian: Секета) is borne by more people in South Africa than any other country/territory. It may occur as a variant: Šeketa. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Seketa? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 503,100th most frequently occurring surname on a worldwide basis, borne by around 1 in 11,160,101 people. It occurs predominantly in Africa, where 74 percent of Seketa reside; 60 percent reside in Southern Africa and 60 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 703,581st most common first name at a global level. It is borne by 169 people.
The surname is most common in South Africa, where it is held by 236 people, or 1 in 229,567. In South Africa Seketa is mostly concentrated in: Gauteng, where 55 percent are found, Limpopo, where 42 percent are found and KwaZulu-Natal, where 1 percent are found. Outside of South Africa Seketa occurs in 23 countries. It also occurs in Zambia, where 19 percent are found and The United States, where 17 percent are found.
Seketa Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Seketa last name are 31.28% more likely to be registered Republicans than the national average, with 78.05% registered with 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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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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