Sobele Surname
Approximately 166 people bear this surname
Sobele Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 117 | 1:463,057 | 38,677 |
| Cameroon | 33 | 1:629,366 | 47,277 |
| Congo | 7 | 1:712,728 | 15,723 |
| Uganda | 3 | 1:13,013,093 | 160,157 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
Sobele Demographics
Average Sobele Salary in
South Africa
R 105,948
Per year
Average Salary in
South Africa
R 237,638
Per year
Sobele Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sobele Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Sobele is borne by more people in South Africa than any other country or territory. It can also occur in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of Sobele.
How Common Is The Last Name Sobele? popularity and diffusion
Sobele is the 1,343,156th most widespread family name on a worldwide basis, held by approximately 1 in 43,900,879 people. The surname Sobele is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Sobele are found; 70 percent are found in Southern Africa and 70 percent are found in South Bantu Africa.
Sobele is most commonly used in South Africa, where it is carried by 117 people, or 1 in 463,057. In South Africa it is most common in: Eastern Cape, where 84 percent live, Gauteng, where 9 percent live and Western Cape, where 4 percent live. Aside from South Africa this last name exists in 8 countries. It is also found in Cameroon, where 20 percent live and The Congo, where 4 percent live.
Sobele Last Name Statistics demography
Sobele earn less than half the average income. In South Africa they earn 55.42% less than the national average, earning R 105,948 per year.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Sobele
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