Seleke Surname
Approximately 12,713 people bear this surname
Seleke Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 10,667 | 1:5,079 | 644 |
| Botswana | 1,042 | 1:2,099 | 212 |
| Lesotho | 812 | 1:2,503 | 360 |
| Nigeria | 103 | 1:1,719,833 | 63,088 |
| DR Congo | 34 | 1:2,172,929 | 106,971 |
| India | 17 | 1:45,121,493 | 474,784 |
| Liberia | 12 | 1:367,378 | 19,503 |
| England | 9 | 1:6,190,895 | 170,599 |
| United States | 7 | 1:51,779,848 | 968,877 |
| Papua New Guinea | 6 | 1:1,358,953 | 118,663 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1:23,089,950 | 83,168 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Zambia | 1 | 1:15,849,922 | 53,989 |
Seleke (1,896) may also be a first name.
Seleke Demographics
Average Seleke Salary in
United States
$32,656 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Seleke Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Seleke Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Seleke (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺳﻠﻜﻪ) has its highest incidence in South Africa. It may also occur as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Seleke? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 41,136th most prevalent surname on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 573,236 people. The last name Seleke is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Seleke live; 98 percent live in Southern Africa and 98 percent live in South Bantu Africa. Seleke is also the 174,590th most prevalent first name throughout the world It is held by 1,896 people.
This last name is most numerous in South Africa, where it is carried by 10,667 people, or 1 in 5,079. In South Africa Seleke is primarily concentrated in: North West, where 51 percent live, Gauteng, where 22 percent live and Free State, where 10 percent live. Barring South Africa it occurs in 12 countries. It is also common in Botswana, where 8 percent live and Lesotho, where 6 percent live.
Seleke Last Name Statistics demography
The amount Seleke earn in different countries varies somewhat. In South Africa they earn 38.16% less than the national average, earning R 146,964 per year and in United States they earn 24.32% less than the national average, earning $32,656 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Seleke Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Seleke in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺳﻠﻜﻪ | slkh | 50 |
| ﺳﻠﻚ | slk | 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
- 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 Seleke
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