Sevket Surname

1,658,108th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 120 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Turkey
Highest density in:
Turkey

Sevket Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Sevket Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Turkey831:937,60743,462
England201:2,785,90397,972
Belgium81:1,437,08092,692
Germany51:16,101,092397,699
Brazil11:214,074,3321,693,628
Greece11:11,079,790145,225
Switzerland11:8,212,915156,297
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

The alternate forms: Ševket (1) are calculated separately.

Sevket (957) may also be a first name.

Sevket Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Sevket Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Sevket is found in Turkey more than any other country/territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms: Ševket. Click here to see other potential spellings of Sevket.

How Common Is The Last Name Sevket? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 1,658,108th most prevalent family name on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 60,729,549 people. It is mostly found in Asia, where 67 percent of Sevket are found; 67 percent are found in West Asia and 67 percent are found in Anatolia and Highlands. Sevket is also the 260,889th most numerous given name internationally It is held by 957 people.

Sevket is most frequently occurring in Turkey, where it is held by 83 people, or 1 in 937,607. In Turkey it is most common in: Bursa Province, where 35 percent are found, Antalya Province, where 22 percent are found and Konya Province, where 11 percent are found. Not including Turkey this surname exists in 7 countries. It also occurs in England, where 17 percent are found and Belgium, where 7 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Ševket941/
Shevket92313/
Sefket83171/
Shefket77436/
Shevked77256/
Chevket772/
Shevketova7564/
Šefket6718/
Zefket671/
Sefketova671/
Shefketova6351/
Shevkedova6326/
Shefked62230/
Shefqet627/
Shavkath571/
Šefketova531/
Shefkedova5034/

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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 Sevket
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