Sokare Surname
Approximately 229 people bear this surname
Sokare Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 114 | 1:1,553,884 | 58,636 |
| India | 99 | 1:7,748,135 | 165,146 |
| Papua New Guinea | 7 | 1:1,164,817 | 109,517 |
| Egypt | 4 | 1:22,983,938 | 62,368 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| Jordan | 1 | 1:8,842,437 | 26,010 |
| Syria | 1 | 1:19,301,022 | 22,457 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
The alternate forms: Sökare (10) are calculated separately.
Sokare (30) may also be a first name.
Sokare Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sokare Come From? nationality or country of origin
Sokare (Arabic: سوكري, Marathi: सोकरे) occurs more in Nigeria more than any other country or territory. It may also occur as a variant: Sökare. Click here to see other possible spellings of Sokare.
How Common Is The Last Name Sokare? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 1,079,669th most frequently held family name at a global level It is held by approximately 1 in 31,823,345 people. The last name Sokare is predominantly found in Africa, where 52 percent of Sokare reside; 50 percent reside in West Africa and 50 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,911,214th most frequently used first name on earth, held by 30 people.
This surname is most commonly held in Nigeria, where it is carried by 114 people, or 1 in 1,553,884. In Nigeria it is primarily found in: Bayelsa, where 85 percent live, Rivers, where 9 percent live and Ondo, where 3 percent live. Other than Nigeria this last name exists in 7 countries. It is also common in India, where 43 percent live and Papua New Guinea, where 3 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Sokare Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Sokare in the Marathi language | ||
| सोकरे | sokare | 89.83 |
| सोकारे | sokare | 5.08 |
| सॉकरॅ | sokare | 1.69 |
| शंकर | sankara | 1.69 |
| Sokare in the Arabic language | ||
| سوكري | swkry | - |
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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 Sokare
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