Sokoine Surname
Approximately 1,134 people bear this surname
Sokoine Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenya | 686 | 1:67,318 | 6,445 |
| Tanzania | 442 | 1:119,777 | 11,421 |
| Canada | 3 | 1:12,281,864 | 364,614 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Sokoine (1,232) may also be a first name.
Sokoine Demographics
Sokoine Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Sokoine Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sokoine Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Sokoine is held by more people in Kenya than any other country or territory. It may appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Sokoine? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 327,420th most commonly held family name on a global scale It is held by around 1 in 6,426,407 people. Sokoine is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Sokoine reside; 100 percent reside in East Africa and 57 percent reside in Nilo-Saharan Africa. It is also the 225,375th most commonly held first name world-wide, held by 1,232 people.
It is most frequently occurring in Kenya, where it is borne by 686 people, or 1 in 67,318. In Kenya it is most frequent in: Kajiado County, where 76 percent reside, Narok County, where 17 percent reside and Makueni County, where 5 percent reside. Excluding Kenya Sokoine is found in 5 countries. It is also found in Tanzania, where 39 percent reside and Canada, where 0 percent reside.
Sokoine Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those carrying the last name is principally Christian (100%) in Kenya.
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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 Sokoine
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