Soala Surname
Approximately 191 people bear this surname
Soala Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 69 | 1:2,567,286 | 83,988 |
| Burkina Faso | 36 | 1:509,781 | 7,011 |
| Cameroon | 35 | 1:593,402 | 45,326 |
| Benin | 26 | 1:397,523 | 29,143 |
| Congo | 9 | 1:554,344 | 12,633 |
| Indonesia | 8 | 1:16,531,149 | 488,268 |
| Egypt | 4 | 1:22,983,938 | 62,368 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Solomon Islands | 1 | 1:580,029 | 22,243 |
The alternate forms: Şoală (1) are calculated separately.
Soala (522) may also be a first name.
Soala Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Soala Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Soala (Arabic: صوالي) is borne by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered as: Şoală. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Soala? popularity and diffusion
The surname Soala is the 1,222,957th most frequently used family name on a global scale, held by around 1 in 38,154,691 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 94 percent of Soala are found; 70 percent are found in West Africa and 69 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Soala is also the 369,527th most frequently occurring first name throughout the world. It is borne by 522 people.
The surname is most frequently occurring in Nigeria, where it is held by 69 people, or 1 in 2,567,286. In Nigeria Soala is mostly found in: Rivers, where 97 percent are found, Bayelsa, where 1 percent are found and Lagos, where 1 percent are found. Besides Nigeria this surname is found in 10 countries. It is also found in Burkina Faso, where 19 percent are found and Cameroon, where 18 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Soala Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Soala in the Arabic language | ||
| صوالي | swaly | - |
| صويلي | swyly | - |
| صويلا | swyla | - |
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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 Soala
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