Sokea Surname
Approximately 85 people bear this surname
Sokea Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 48 | 1:169,869 | 23,574 |
| Cambodia | 15 | 1:1,032,476 | 5,479 |
| Solomon Islands | 12 | 1:48,336 | 9,616 |
| Kenya | 4 | 1:11,544,975 | 62,419 |
| Taiwan | 3 | 1:7,814,915 | 41,694 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Sokea (11,322) may also be a first name.
Sokea Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sokea Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Sokea is more commonly found in Papua New Guinea than any other country/territory. It can also appear as:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Sokea? popularity and diffusion
Sokea is the 2,034,059th most frequently used last name in the world, held by approximately 1 in 85,735,834 people. The last name Sokea occurs predominantly in Oceania, where 71 percent of Sokea live; 71 percent live in Oceania Islands and 56 percent live in Papuan Oceania. Sokea is also the 56,388th most commonly used first name in the world It is held by 11,322 people.
The surname Sokea is most frequently occurring in Papua New Guinea, where it is carried by 48 people, or 1 in 169,869. In Papua New Guinea it is mostly found in: Northern, where 77 percent live and Southern Highlands, where 23 percent live. Excluding Papua New Guinea this surname occurs in 7 countries. It is also found in Cambodia, where 18 percent live and The Solomon Islands, where 14 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
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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 Sokea
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