Somasali Surname

4,034,050th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 24 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
India
Highest density in:
India

Somasali Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Somasali Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
India231:33,350,669396,143
Philippines11:101,238,223404,861

Somasali Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Somasali Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Somasali is more frequently found in India than any other country/territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of Somasali.

How Common Is The Last Name Somasali? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 4,034,050th most commonly used last name internationally, held by approximately 1 in 303,647,746 people. The last name is primarily found in Asia, where 100 percent of Somasali are found; 96 percent are found in South Asia and 96 percent are found in Indo-South Asia.

Somasali is most common in India, where it is held by 23 people, or 1 in 33,350,669. In India it is primarily found in: Karnataka, where 96 percent reside and Andhra Pradesh, where 4 percent reside. Not including India it is found in one country. It is also found in The Philippines, where 4 percent reside.

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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 Somasali
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