Sohar Surname
Approximately 2,059 people bear this surname
Sohar Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 593 | 1:223,017 | 20,790 |
| Oman | 574 | 1:6,425 | 912 |
| India | 312 | 1:2,458,543 | 78,930 |
| United States | 104 | 1:3,485,182 | 196,218 |
| Austria | 90 | 1:94,616 | 13,804 |
| Pakistan | 81 | 1:2,205,480 | 20,341 |
| Iraq | 52 | 1:673,493 | 9,953 |
| Palestine | 35 | 1:129,967 | 7,777 |
| Jordan | 35 | 1:252,641 | 10,356 |
| Mauritius | 33 | 1:39,194 | 7,252 |
| Iran | 27 | 1:2,843,797 | 88,363 |
| Canada | 18 | 1:2,046,977 | 128,463 |
| Malaysia | 16 | 1:1,843,389 | 74,511 |
| Germany | 14 | 1:5,750,390 | 205,224 |
| England | 13 | 1:4,286,005 | 132,302 |
| Lebanon | 12 | 1:469,757 | 12,312 |
| Egypt | 9 | 1:10,215,084 | 48,153 |
| Thailand | 8 | 1:8,829,793 | 476,604 |
| Argentina | 6 | 1:7,123,902 | 190,047 |
| Guyana | 3 | 1:254,074 | 11,262 |
| Czechia | 3 | 1:3,544,490 | 144,714 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Australia | 2 | 1:13,497,850 | 222,987 |
| Israel | 2 | 1:4,278,817 | 136,311 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Belarus | 2 | 1:4,750,530 | 139,516 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Nepal | 1 | 1:28,480,956 | 22,413 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
| Saint Lucia | 1 | 1:178,781 | 3,800 |
| Slovenia | 1 | 1:2,487,675 | 31,128 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Bahrain | 1 | 1:1,348,608 | 10,432 |
| Yemen | 1 | 1:26,425,294 | 55,147 |
The alternate forms: Sohár (345) & Šohar (37) are calculated separately.
Sohar (7,977) may also be a first name.
Sohar Demographics
Sohar Religious Adherence
in Lebanon
Religious Adherence
in Lebanon
Sohar Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sohar Come From? nationality or country of origin
Sohar (Arabic: سحَّار, Hindi: सोहर, Marathi: सोहर, Oriya: େସାହାର) has its highest incidence in Indonesia. It can be rendered in the variant forms: Sohár or Šohar. Click here to see other potential spellings of Sohar.
How Common Is The Last Name Sohar? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 202,315th most widespread surname internationally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 3,539,362 people. The surname is predominantly found in Asia, where 85 percent of Sohar are found; 35 percent are found in West Asia and 30 percent are found in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia. It is also the 71,226th most frequently held first name at a global level, held by 7,977 people.
This surname is most widely held in Indonesia, where it is carried by 593 people, or 1 in 223,017. In Indonesia it is mostly found in: South Sumatra, where 58 percent are found, Lampung, where 19 percent are found and Bengkulu, where 7 percent are found. Besides Indonesia this surname occurs in 35 countries. It is also common in Oman, where 28 percent are found and India, where 15 percent are found.
Sohar Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those carrying the Sohar last name is predominantly Chaldean Catholic (67%) in Lebanon.
In The United States those bearing the Sohar surname are 29.7% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 76.47% registered to vote for the party.
The amount Sohar earn in different countries varies notably. In United States they earn 11.2% more than the national average, earning $47,980 USD per year and in Canada they earn 33.51% more than the national average, earning $66,332 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Sohar Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Sohar in the Hindi language | ||
| सोहर | sohara | 99.07 |
| शोहर | sohara | 0.93 |
| Sohar in the Marathi language | ||
| सोहर | sohara | 76.39 |
| सोहार | sohara | 18.06 |
| सोहराने | soharane | 2.78 |
| सोनार | sonara | 2.78 |
| Sohar in the Oriya language | ||
| େସାହାର | esahara | 50 |
| େସାହର | esahara | 50 |
| Sohar in the Arabic language | ||
| سحَّار | shaar | - |
| صحار | shar | - |
| سحّار | shar | - |
| شحار | shhar | - |
| سحار | shar | - |
| سوهار | swhar | - |
| سوهر | swhr | - |
| زوهير | zwhyr | - |
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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 Sohar
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