Somke Surname
Approximately 184 people bear this surname
Somke Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 127 | 1:426,596 | 36,772 |
| Thailand | 34 | 1:2,077,598 | 243,257 |
| Niger | 15 | 1:1,279,468 | 26,841 |
| Germany | 7 | 1:11,500,780 | 305,602 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
Somke (13) may also be a first name.
Somke Demographics
Average Somke Salary in
South Africa
R 86,928
Per year
Average Salary in
South Africa
R 237,638
Per year
Somke Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Somke Come From? nationality or country of origin
Somke occurs most in South Africa. It can also be found in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of Somke.
How Common Is The Last Name Somke? popularity and diffusion
It is the 1,252,959th most commonly used surname in the world, borne by around 1 in 39,606,228 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 77 percent of Somke live; 69 percent live in Southern Africa and 69 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 3,159,357th most commonly occurring first name in the world It is held by 13 people.
The surname is most frequently used in South Africa, where it is borne by 127 people, or 1 in 426,596. In South Africa it is mostly found in: Eastern Cape, where 87 percent live, Western Cape, where 8 percent live and Gauteng, where 2 percent live. Other than South Africa this surname is found in 4 countries. It is also found in Thailand, where 18 percent live and Niger, where 8 percent live.
Somke Last Name Statistics demography
Somke earn less than half the average income. In South Africa they earn 63.42% less than the national average, earning R 86,928 per year.
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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 Somke
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