Somene Surname
Approximately 469 people bear this surname
Somene Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 294 | 1:78,474 | 4,300 |
| DR Congo | 123 | 1:600,647 | 45,387 |
| Cameroon | 45 | 1:461,535 | 38,189 |
| Papua New Guinea | 5 | 1:1,630,743 | 129,019 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
The alternate forms: Somené (1) & Soméné (1) are calculated separately.
Somene (156) may also be a first name.
Somene Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Somene Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Somene is more frequently found in The Ivory Coast than any other country or territory. It may also appear in the variant forms: Somené or Soméné. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Somene? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 645,988th most frequently occurring family name on a global scale It is held by around 1 in 15,538,477 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 67 percent of Somene live; 36 percent live in Central Africa and 36 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. Somene is also the 735,679th most frequently used first name globally. It is borne by 156 people.
Somene is most frequent in The Ivory Coast, where it is borne by 294 people, or 1 in 78,474. In The Ivory Coast Somene is mostly found in: Abidjan Autonomous District, where 50 percent live, Gôh-Djiboua District, where 40 percent live and Sassandra-Marahoué District, where 7 percent live. Outside of The Ivory Coast this surname occurs in 5 countries. It is also common in The DR Congo, where 26 percent live and Cameroon, where 10 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
- 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 Somene
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