Somoni Surname
Approximately 670 people bear this surname
Somoni Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenya | 429 | 1:107,645 | 9,251 |
| Nigeria | 113 | 1:1,567,635 | 58,980 |
| Tajikistan | 22 | 1:381,213 | 2,820 |
| DR Congo | 21 | 1:3,518,075 | 145,665 |
| Malaysia | 19 | 1:1,552,328 | 64,490 |
| Cameroon | 12 | 1:1,730,756 | 92,157 |
| Papua New Guinea | 9 | 1:905,969 | 94,851 |
| Benin | 6 | 1:1,722,600 | 61,769 |
| India | 5 | 1:153,413,076 | 951,030 |
| Russia | 5 | 1:28,824,611 | 530,332 |
| Indonesia | 5 | 1:26,449,839 | 597,308 |
| Greece | 4 | 1:2,769,948 | 101,568 |
| Uzbekistan | 4 | 1:7,732,286 | 43,643 |
| Turkey | 3 | 1:25,940,474 | 162,557 |
| Iran | 2 | 1:38,391,262 | 236,033 |
| Albania | 2 | 1:1,457,028 | 24,967 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Cambodia | 1 | 1:15,487,146 | 14,824 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Armenia | 1 | 1:2,930,180 | 22,770 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 1:16,739,561 | 595,711 |
Somoni (1,232) may also be a first name.
Somoni Demographics
Somoni Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Somoni Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Somoni Come From? nationality or country of origin
Somoni (Hindi: सोमोनी, Russian: Сомони) is held by more people in Kenya than any other country or territory. It may be rendered as:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Somoni? popularity and diffusion
It is the 493,410th most prevalent surname globally, borne by approximately 1 in 10,876,934 people. It is predominantly found in Africa, where 87 percent of Somoni are found; 64 percent are found in East Africa and 41 percent are found in Nilo-Saharan Africa. It is also the 225,375th most widely held forename world-wide, held by 1,232 people.
This surname is most commonly held in Kenya, where it is borne by 429 people, or 1 in 107,645. In Kenya it is most common in: Kisii County, where 64 percent reside, Nyamira County, where 20 percent reside and Nakuru County, where 14 percent reside. Without taking into account Kenya this last name exists in 24 countries. It is also common in Nigeria, where 17 percent reside and Tajikistan, where 3 percent reside.
Somoni Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Somoni has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Somoni last name fell 67 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Somoni Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those carrying the Somoni last name is principally Christian (100%) in Kenya.
Phonetically Similar Names
Somoni Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Somoni in the Hindi language | ||
| सोमोनी | somoni | - |
| Somoni in the Russian language | ||
| Сомони | somoni | - |
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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 Somoni
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