Seki Surname
Approximately 170,574 people bear this surname
Seki Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japan | 164,025 | 1:779 | 129 |
| Turkey | 1,430 | 1:54,421 | 5,330 |
| Brazil | 839 | 1:255,154 | 9,835 |
| United States | 756 | 1:479,443 | 40,632 |
| Papua New Guinea | 698 | 1:11,682 | 1,059 |
| DR Congo | 397 | 1:186,095 | 18,831 |
| Ivory Coast | 389 | 1:59,309 | 3,489 |
| Kenya | 345 | 1:133,855 | 10,969 |
| Tanzania | 341 | 1:155,254 | 13,987 |
| Thailand | 145 | 1:487,161 | 85,241 |
| Canada | 137 | 1:268,946 | 25,310 |
| Nigeria | 130 | 1:1,362,637 | 53,337 |
| Indonesia | 128 | 1:1,033,197 | 75,404 |
| Singapore | 107 | 1:51,474 | 1,981 |
| Benin | 91 | 1:113,578 | 12,648 |
| Hong Kong | 84 | 1:87,327 | 1,583 |
| Botswana | 72 | 1:30,374 | 6,067 |
| Philippines | 48 | 1:2,109,130 | 121,847 |
| Paraguay | 37 | 1:195,588 | 3,664 |
| Australia | 34 | 1:793,991 | 50,673 |
| Uganda | 31 | 1:1,259,332 | 49,678 |
| England | 31 | 1:1,797,357 | 72,927 |
| India | 28 | 1:27,395,192 | 354,286 |
| Peru | 19 | 1:1,672,849 | 23,436 |
| Russia | 18 | 1:8,006,836 | 292,169 |
| Croatia | 17 | 1:248,741 | 26,882 |
| Solomon Islands | 16 | 1:36,252 | 7,281 |
| China | 15 | 1:91,154,771 | 4,767 |
| Malaysia | 12 | 1:2,457,852 | 95,442 |
| Sweden | 9 | 1:1,094,084 | 81,336 |
| Afghanistan | 9 | 1:3,572,576 | 20,130 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | 8 | 1:6,822 | 652 |
| Netherlands | 8 | 1:2,110,897 | 88,902 |
| Mexico | 8 | 1:15,515,776 | 47,773 |
| Germany | 8 | 1:10,063,182 | 283,807 |
| Yemen | 8 | 1:3,303,162 | 16,088 |
| France | 7 | 1:9,488,960 | 336,266 |
| Mauritania | 7 | 1:584,980 | 20,004 |
| Congo | 6 | 1:831,516 | 16,072 |
| Switzerland | 5 | 1:1,642,583 | 87,307 |
| Cameroon | 5 | 1:4,153,814 | 129,697 |
| Taiwan | 4 | 1:5,861,186 | 33,577 |
| Fiji | 4 | 1:223,598 | 2,635 |
| Argentina | 4 | 1:10,685,854 | 219,200 |
| Italy | 3 | 1:20,385,563 | 143,117 |
| Belarus | 3 | 1:3,167,020 | 121,664 |
| Scotland | 2 | 1:2,676,908 | 51,579 |
| Poland | 2 | 1:19,004,374 | 199,659 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| Pakistan | 2 | 1:89,321,942 | 157,560 |
| Serbia | 2 | 1:3,572,474 | 32,645 |
| Norway | 2 | 1:2,571,143 | 95,402 |
| Bulgaria | 2 | 1:3,489,452 | 64,958 |
| South Korea | 2 | 1:25,620,128 | 4,175 |
| New Zealand | 2 | 1:2,264,162 | 49,210 |
| North Macedonia | 2 | 1:1,050,736 | 26,362 |
| Chile | 2 | 1:8,808,237 | 65,417 |
| Czechia | 2 | 1:5,316,734 | 169,646 |
| Slovenia | 1 | 1:2,487,675 | 31,128 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
| Vietnam | 1 | 1:92,646,054 | 8,382 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Swaziland | 1 | 1:1,298,199 | 1,718 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
| Guam | 1 | 1:160,121 | 4,893 |
| Albania | 1 | 1:2,914,055 | 29,474 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Azerbaijan | 1 | 1:9,649,122 | 47,873 |
| Cyprus | 1 | 1:884,876 | 13,055 |
| Dominican Republic | 1 | 1:10,432,932 | 36,508 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 1:5,637,083 | 32,436 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Lithuania | 1 | 1:3,034,588 | 47,401 |
| Montenegro | 1 | 1:639,565 | 9,092 |
| Mozambique | 1 | 1:27,261,569 | 7,432 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Palau | 1 | 1:21,643 | 223 |
| Palestine | 1 | 1:4,548,849 | 18,388 |
The alternate forms: Séki (1) & Šeki (1) are calculated separately.
Seki (39,615) may also be a first name.
Seki Demographics
Seki Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Seki Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Seki Come From? nationality or country of origin
Seki (Arabic: سيكي, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺳﻜﻲ, Hindi: सेकी, Marathi: सेकी, Oriya: େସକି, Russian: Секи, Tibetan: གསེར་སྐྱིད།) has its highest incidence in Japan. It can also appear as a variant: Séki or Šeki. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Seki? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 3,298th most frequently held last name throughout the world, borne by around 1 in 42,724 people. The last name Seki occurs predominantly in Asia, where 97 percent of Seki live; 96 percent live in East Asia and 96 percent live in Nippono-Asia. It is also the 22,378th most frequently occurring first name throughout the world, borne by 39,615 people.
The surname Seki is most common in Japan, where it is carried by 164,025 people, or 1 in 779. In Japan Seki is primarily concentrated in: Tokyo Metropolis, where 15 percent are found, Kanagawa Prefecture, where 10 percent are found and Chiba Prefecture, where 9 percent are found. Aside from Japan this last name is found in 81 countries. It also occurs in Turkey, where 1 percent are found and Brazil, where 0 percent are found.
Seki Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those holding the Seki surname is principally Christian (100%) in Kenya.
In The United States those holding the Seki last name are 15.91% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 69.14% being registered with the political party.
The amount Seki earn in different countries varies markedly. In Peru they earn 20.61% less than the national average, earning S/. 15,390 per year; in United States they earn 22.52% more than the national average, earning $52,866 USD per year and in Canada they earn 7.79% more than the national average, earning $53,552 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Seki Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Seki in the Hindi language | ||
| सेकी | seki | - |
| Seki in the Marathi language | ||
| सेकी | seki | 87.5 |
| सॅकी | seki | 12.5 |
| Seki in the Oriya language | ||
| େସକି | esaki | 81.82 |
| େଶକି | esaki | 9.09 |
| େସକୀ | esaki | 9.09 |
| Seki in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺳﻜﻲ | sky | 75 |
| ﺻﻜﻲ | sky | 25 |
| Seki in the Tibetan language | ||
| གསེར་སྐྱིད། | serkyi | 23.53 |
| སྲས་སྐྱིད། | sékyi | 20.59 |
| སེ་ཀི། | séki | 11.76 |
| སྲས་སྐྱིད་ | sékyi | 5.88 |
| སྲིད་སྐྱིད་ | sikyi | 2.94 |
| སྲས་ཀི་ | séki | 2.94 |
| སྲིད་ཀྱི་ | sikyi | 2.94 |
| གསེར་སྐྱིད་ | serkyi | 2.94 |
| སེར་སྐྱིད་ | serkyi | 2.94 |
| སིད་སྐྱིད་ | sikyi | 2.94 |
| སེ་སྐྱིད། | sékyi | 2.94 |
| སི་སྐྱིད་ | sikyi | 2.94 |
| སེ་སྐྱིད་ | sékyi | 2.94 |
| སྲིད་སྐྱིད། | sikyi | 2.94 |
| གསེརསྐྱིད་ | serkyi | 2.94 |
| སྲས་ཀི། | séki | 2.94 |
| སེ་ཀྱི། | sékyi | 2.94 |
| Seki in the Russian language | ||
| Секи | seki | - |
| Seki in the Arabic language | ||
| سيكي | syky | - |
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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 Seki
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