Sissako Surname
Approximately 5,151 people bear this surname
Sissako Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mali | 4,195 | 1:4,045 | 289 |
| France | 438 | 1:151,650 | 23,523 |
| Cameroon | 388 | 1:53,529 | 6,977 |
| Burkina Faso | 69 | 1:265,972 | 5,041 |
| Ivory Coast | 49 | 1:470,841 | 15,263 |
| Mauritania | 3 | 1:1,364,954 | 27,355 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| Canada | 2 | 1:18,422,796 | 409,488 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Sissako (36) may also be a first name.
Sissako Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sissako Come From? nationality or country of origin
Sissako (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺳﻴﺴﺎﻛﻮ) is carried by more people in Mali than any other country or territory. It may also occur in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Sissako? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 92,736th most frequently held family name on a global scale, borne by around 1 in 1,414,783 people. This surname is mostly found in Africa, where 91 percent of Sissako reside; 84 percent reside in West Africa and 82 percent reside in Mande Africa. Sissako is also the 1,717,090th most frequent first name globally, borne by 36 people.
This last name is most frequently occurring in Mali, where it is carried by 4,195 people, or 1 in 4,045. Other than Mali this surname is found in 12 countries. It is also common in France, where 9 percent reside and Cameroon, where 8 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Sissako Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Sissako in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺳﻴﺴﺎﻛﻮ | sysakw | 50 |
| ﺳﻴﺴﻐﻮ | sysghw | 50 |
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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 Sissako
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