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
The surname Sokare (Arabic: سوكري, Marathi: सोकरे) is found in Nigeria more than any other country or territory. It may be found as a variant: Sökare. Click here for further possible spellings of Sokare.
How Common Is The Last Name Sokare? popularity and diffusion
It is the 1,079,669th most widely held family name world-wide, held by around 1 in 31,823,345 people. The last name is mostly found in Africa, where 52 percent of Sokare live; 50 percent live in West Africa and 50 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,911,214th most widely held first name world-wide, held by 30 people.
The surname Sokare is most frequently used in Nigeria, where it is held by 114 people, or 1 in 1,553,884. In Nigeria it is most frequent in: Bayelsa, where 85 percent reside, Rivers, where 9 percent reside and Ondo, where 3 percent reside. Without taking into account Nigeria it occurs in 7 countries. It also occurs in India, where 43 percent reside and Papua New Guinea, where 3 percent reside.
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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