Sobola Surname
Approximately 2,015 people bear this surname
Sobola Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 1,167 | 1:151,793 | 9,615 |
| DR Congo | 212 | 1:348,489 | 30,654 |
| Poland | 147 | 1:258,563 | 32,318 |
| Slovakia | 116 | 1:46,004 | 8,763 |
| Czechia | 95 | 1:111,931 | 18,340 |
| Germany | 53 | 1:1,518,971 | 91,373 |
| United States | 52 | 1:6,970,364 | 322,914 |
| England | 36 | 1:1,547,724 | 66,012 |
| South Africa | 30 | 1:1,805,923 | 85,708 |
| Latvia | 29 | 1:70,691 | 10,433 |
| Ireland | 24 | 1:196,206 | 8,013 |
| Spain | 22 | 1:2,125,093 | 54,547 |
| Austria | 10 | 1:851,544 | 67,454 |
| Tanzania | 10 | 1:5,294,161 | 57,086 |
| Malawi | 4 | 1:4,279,777 | 24,060 |
| Argentina | 2 | 1:21,371,707 | 253,176 |
| Croatia | 2 | 1:2,114,302 | 85,143 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
The alternate forms: Sobóla (2) are calculated separately.
Sobola (90) may also be a first name.
Sobola Demographics
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Sobola Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sobola Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Sobola is found most frequently in Nigeria. It can occur as: Sobóla. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Sobola? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 205,808th most widely held last name on a global scale, held by around 1 in 3,616,648 people. The surname Sobola is mostly found in Africa, where 71 percent of Sobola live; 58 percent live in West Africa and 58 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Sobola is also the 1,005,046th most commonly used first name world-wide. It is borne by 90 people.
This last name is most commonly held in Nigeria, where it is carried by 1,167 people, or 1 in 151,793. In Nigeria it is most frequent in: Ogun, where 53 percent are found, Lagos, where 24 percent are found and Oyo, where 11 percent are found. Not including Nigeria this last name occurs in 20 countries. It is also found in The DR Congo, where 11 percent are found and Poland, where 7 percent are found.
Sobola Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Sobola last name are 17.36% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 70.59% being registered to vote for the party.
The amount Sobola earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 90.47% less than the national average, earning R 22,644 per year and in United States they earn 6.49% less than the national average, earning $40,349 USD 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 Sobola
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