Sofee Surname
Approximately 167 people bear this surname
Sofee Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malaysia | 131 | 1:225,147 | 12,981 |
| India | 15 | 1:51,137,692 | 512,385 |
| Sweden | 10 | 1:984,676 | 73,605 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| American Samoa | 1 | 1:55,758 | 3,072 |
| Brunei | 1 | 1:418,731 | 3,893 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Jordan | 1 | 1:8,842,437 | 26,010 |
| Maldives | 1 | 1:404,172 | 7,269 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 1 | 1:24,375,369 | 195,128 |
Sofee (127) may also be a first name.
Sofee Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sofee Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Sofee is carried by more people in Malaysia than any other country or territory. It can also occur as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of Sofee.
How Common Is The Last Name Sofee? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,338,236th most widely held family name world-wide, borne by around 1 in 43,637,999 people. The last name Sofee occurs mostly in Asia, where 91 percent of Sofee are found; 80 percent are found in Southeast Asia and 79 percent are found in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia. It is also the 825,494th most prevalent first name worldwide, borne by 127 people.
The surname is most commonly held in Malaysia, where it is borne by 131 people, or 1 in 225,147. In Malaysia it is most frequent in: Perak, where 30 percent live, Kelantan, where 13 percent live and Terengganu, where 11 percent live. Excluding Malaysia it exists in 12 countries. It also occurs in India, where 9 percent live and Sweden, where 6 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 Sofee
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