Sodea Surname
Approximately 2,153 people bear this surname
Sodea Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 2,129 | 1:9,755 | 1,286 |
| India | 13 | 1:59,005,029 | 552,550 |
| Philippines | 8 | 1:12,654,778 | 228,986 |
| Central African Republic | 1 | 1:4,515,390 | 1,196 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Solomon Islands | 1 | 1:580,029 | 22,243 |
The alternate forms: Sodéa (1) are calculated separately.
Sodea (102) may also be a first name.
Sodea Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sodea Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Sodea is carried by more people in Cameroon than any other country or territory. It may occur in the variant forms: Sodéa. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Sodea? popularity and diffusion
It is the 195,028th most frequently used last name internationally, borne by approximately 1 in 3,384,833 people. The last name is primarily found in Africa, where 99 percent of Sodea live; 96 percent live in Central Africa and 57 percent live in Adamawa-Ubangian Africa. Sodea is also the 935,178th most frequent first name in the world. It is borne by 102 people.
This last name is most commonly used in Cameroon, where it is held by 2,129 people, or 1 in 9,755. In Cameroon Sodea is most common in: Adamawa Region, where 58 percent live, East Region, where 32 percent live and Centre Region, where 3 percent live. Other than Cameroon this last name is found in 5 countries. It also occurs in India, where 1 percent live and The Philippines, where 0 percent live.
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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 Sodea
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