Sember Surname
Approximately 2,216 people bear this surname
Sember Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 690 | 1:256,729 | 14,780 |
| United States | 408 | 1:888,380 | 67,160 |
| Indonesia | 402 | 1:328,978 | 28,772 |
| Ukraine | 194 | 1:234,653 | 31,061 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 118 | 1:29,970 | 4,684 |
| Poland | 86 | 1:441,962 | 45,671 |
| Russia | 77 | 1:1,871,728 | 119,355 |
| South Africa | 43 | 1:1,259,947 | 70,377 |
| Germany | 34 | 1:2,367,808 | 122,173 |
| Brazil | 28 | 1:7,645,512 | 174,288 |
| Canada | 21 | 1:1,754,552 | 114,935 |
| Australia | 20 | 1:1,349,785 | 70,688 |
| Peru | 16 | 1:1,986,508 | 25,077 |
| Argentina | 13 | 1:3,287,955 | 132,850 |
| Finland | 11 | 1:499,700 | 30,478 |
| Israel | 11 | 1:777,967 | 50,646 |
| Czechia | 10 | 1:1,063,347 | 80,937 |
| Mauritania | 7 | 1:584,980 | 20,004 |
| Niger | 6 | 1:3,198,670 | 54,540 |
| Denmark | 4 | 1:1,411,179 | 60,800 |
| Croatia | 3 | 1:1,409,535 | 70,997 |
| Papua New Guinea | 2 | 1:4,076,858 | 165,791 |
| North Macedonia | 1 | 1:2,101,472 | 31,546 |
| Lithuania | 1 | 1:3,034,588 | 47,401 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Serbia | 1 | 1:7,144,948 | 38,459 |
| Slovakia | 1 | 1:5,336,450 | 140,422 |
| Slovenia | 1 | 1:2,487,675 | 31,128 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 1:6,978,905 | 86,260 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotland | 4 | 1:935,804 | 21,348 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 1:16,739,561 | 595,711 |
The alternate forms: Sembèr (57) & Šember (53) are calculated separately.
Sember (1,196) may also be a first name.
Sember Demographics
Average Sember Salary in
United States
$50,363 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Sember Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sember Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Sember (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺳﻤﺒﻴﺮ, Russian: Сембер) is carried by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It can occur as a variant: Sembèr or Šember. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Sember? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 190,445th most frequent surname at a global level, borne by approximately 1 in 3,288,604 people. The last name Sember occurs mostly in Africa, where 34 percent of Sember live; 32 percent live in West Africa and 31 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 229,161st most commonly occurring first name world-wide It is held by 1,196 people.
Sember is most common in Nigeria, where it is held by 690 people, or 1 in 256,729. In Nigeria Sember is most numerous in: Benue, where 94 percent live, Plateau, where 2 percent live and Kaduna, where 2 percent live. Beside Nigeria it occurs in 33 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 18 percent live and Indonesia, where 18 percent live.
Sember Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Sember has changed over time. In The United States the number of people bearing the Sember surname rose 13,600 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Sember Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those holding the surname is principally Christian (100%) in Nigeria and Orthodox (75%) in Ukraine.
In The United States Sember are 4.72% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 51.49% registered with the party.
The amount Sember earn in different countries varies significantly. In South Africa they earn 30.53% more than the national average, earning R 310,200 per year; in United States they earn 16.72% more than the national average, earning $50,363 USD per year and in Canada they earn 1.05% more than the national average, earning $50,205 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Sember Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Sember in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺳﻤﺒﻴﺮ | smbyr | - |
| Sember in the Russian language | ||
| Сембер | sember | - |
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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 Sember
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