Sinkan Surname

878,878th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 307 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Thailand
Highest density in:
Thailand

Sinkan Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Sinkan Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Thailand2141:330,08657,008
Turkey731:1,066,04747,221
Ivory Coast181:1,281,73528,562
Cameroon11:20,769,068227,406
Malaysia11:29,494,225409,885

Sinkan (85) may also be a first name.

Sinkan Last Name Facts

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

The last name Sinkan is more commonly found in Thailand than any other country or territory. It may also occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Sinkan? popularity and diffusion

The last name Sinkan is the 878,878th most commonly held surname on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 23,737,935 people. This surname is mostly found in Asia, where 94 percent of Sinkan reside; 70 percent reside in Southeast Asia and 70 percent reside in Tai-Asia. It is also the 1,039,322nd most frequent first name at a global level It is held by 85 people.

The last name is most common in Thailand, where it is borne by 214 people, or 1 in 330,086. In Thailand it is primarily found in: Surat Thani Province, where 58 percent live, Samut Sakhon Province, where 21 percent live and Bangkok, where 8 percent live. Excluding Thailand it is found in 4 countries. It also occurs in Turkey, where 24 percent live and The Ivory Coast, where 6 percent live.

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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 Sinkan
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