Sename Surname
Approximately 398 people bear this surname
Sename Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Botswana | 193 | 1:11,331 | 2,140 |
| France | 135 | 1:492,020 | 69,079 |
| Benin | 42 | 1:246,086 | 21,801 |
| Lesotho | 12 | 1:169,380 | 13,459 |
| South Africa | 4 | 1:13,544,426 | 222,367 |
| Nigeria | 3 | 1:59,047,586 | 507,603 |
| Russia | 3 | 1:48,041,019 | 639,186 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Chile | 1 | 1:17,616,474 | 93,597 |
| Cuba | 1 | 1:11,522,716 | 17,380 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
Sename (1,925) may also be a first name.
Sename Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sename Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Sename (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺳﻨﺎﻣﻪ) is more frequently found in Botswana than any other country or territory. It may be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Sename? popularity and diffusion
The surname Sename is the 728,955th most common surname worldwide, held by approximately 1 in 18,310,417 people. The last name Sename occurs mostly in Africa, where 65 percent of Sename live; 53 percent live in Southern Africa and 53 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 173,018th most frequent given name internationally, held by 1,925 people.
The surname is most frequent in Botswana, where it is held by 193 people, or 1 in 11,331. Excluding Botswana this last name exists in 12 countries. It is also common in France, where 34 percent are found and Benin, where 11 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Sename Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Sename in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺳﻨﺎﻣﻪ | snamh | - |
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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 Sename
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