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
Somene is found most in The Ivory Coast. It can also be rendered in the variant forms: Somené or Soméné. Click here for further possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Somene? popularity and diffusion
The surname Somene is the 645,988th most frequently held surname globally. It is borne by around 1 in 15,538,477 people. The last name Somene is predominantly found in Africa, where 67 percent of Somene reside; 36 percent reside in Central Africa and 36 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 735,679th most widely held first name in the world It is held by 156 people.
This surname is most commonly used in The Ivory Coast, where it is carried by 294 people, or 1 in 78,474. In The Ivory Coast it is most numerous in: Abidjan Autonomous District, where 50 percent are found, Gôh-Djiboua District, where 40 percent are found and Sassandra-Marahoué District, where 7 percent are found. Barring The Ivory Coast it exists in 5 countries. It is also found in The DR Congo, where 26 percent are found and Cameroon, where 10 percent are found.
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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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