Sheken Surname
Approximately 27 people bear this surname
Sheken Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kazakhstan | 19 | 1:930,658 | 56,702 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 4 | 1:1,493,164 | 71,188 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 1 | 1:24,375,369 | 195,128 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 1:25,109,342 | 694,541 |
Sheken (44) may also be a first name.
Sheken Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sheken Come From? nationality or country of origin
Sheken (Oriya: େଶେକନ, Russian: Шекен) is more frequently found in Kazakhstan than any other country/territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Sheken? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 3,798,600th most frequently held surname internationally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 269,909,108 people. The last name occurs mostly in Asia, where 96 percent of Sheken reside; 85 percent reside in Central Asia and 85 percent reside in Islamo-Slavic Central Asia. Sheken is also the 1,525,482nd most frequent first name world-wide, held by 44 people.
This last name is most frequently held in Kazakhstan, where it is held by 19 people, or 1 in 930,658. In Kazakhstan it is most prevalent in: Karaganda Region, where 74 percent reside, Almaty, where 5 percent reside and Astana, where 5 percent reside. Without taking into account Kazakhstan this last name exists in 4 countries. It also occurs in Kyrgyzstan, where 15 percent reside and India, where 7 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Sheken Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Sheken in the Oriya language | ||
| େଶେକନ | esekana | - |
| Sheken in the Russian language | ||
| Шекен | seken | - |
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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 Sheken
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