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 surname Sobele occurs in South Africa more than any other country or territory. It may also be found as:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Sobele? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 1,343,156th most numerous last name internationally, held by around 1 in 43,900,879 people. The last name Sobele is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Sobele live; 70 percent live in Southern Africa and 70 percent live in South Bantu Africa.
It is most prevalent in South Africa, where it is held by 117 people, or 1 in 463,057. In South Africa Sobele is most numerous in: Eastern Cape, where 84 percent reside, Gauteng, where 9 percent reside and Western Cape, where 4 percent reside. Not including South Africa Sobele occurs in 8 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 20 percent reside and The Congo, where 4 percent reside.
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
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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 Sobele
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