Sekum Surname
Approximately 404 people bear this surname
Sekum Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 277 | 1:97,548 | 9,187 |
| Papua New Guinea | 83 | 1:98,238 | 13,191 |
| Liberia | 15 | 1:293,902 | 16,977 |
| Malaysia | 11 | 1:2,681,293 | 102,971 |
| Indonesia | 8 | 1:16,531,149 | 488,268 |
| Thailand | 4 | 1:17,659,586 | 685,799 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Sekum (34) may also be a first name.
Sekum Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sekum Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Sekum (Hindi: शेकुं) is carried by more people in Ghana than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered as:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Sekum? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 721,185th most frequently held surname world-wide, held by around 1 in 18,038,480 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 73 percent of Sekum live; 73 percent live in West Africa and 69 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,775,424th most commonly held forename in the world It is held by 34 people.
It is most frequent in Ghana, where it is held by 277 people, or 1 in 97,548. Outside of Ghana this last name occurs in 10 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 21 percent are found and Liberia, where 4 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Sekum Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Sekum in the Hindi language | ||
| शेकुं | sekum | 50 |
| सेकुम | sekuma | 50 |
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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 Sekum
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