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 more frequently found in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It can occur as a variant: Şoală. Click here for further potential spellings of Soala.
How Common Is The Last Name Soala? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,222,957th most frequent last name worldwide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 38,154,691 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 94 percent of Soala reside; 70 percent reside in West Africa and 69 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Soala is also the 369,527th most commonly held first name world-wide. It is borne by 522 people.
Soala is most commonly held in Nigeria, where it is borne by 69 people, or 1 in 2,567,286. In Nigeria Soala is primarily found in: Rivers, where 97 percent live, Bayelsa, where 1 percent live and Lagos, where 1 percent live. Outside of Nigeria Soala occurs in 10 countries. It is also found in Burkina Faso, where 19 percent live and Cameroon, where 18 percent live.
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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