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
The surname Somoni (Hindi: सोमोनी, Russian: Сомони) is borne by more people in Kenya than any other country/territory. It can also appear as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Somoni? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 493,410th most commonly occurring last name world-wide It is held by around 1 in 10,876,934 people. The last name Somoni is mostly found in Africa, where 87 percent of Somoni reside; 64 percent reside in East Africa and 41 percent reside in Nilo-Saharan Africa. Somoni is also the 225,375th most frequently used first name at a global level, held by 1,232 people.
The last name is most numerous in Kenya, where it is held by 429 people, or 1 in 107,645. In Kenya it is most prevalent in: Kisii County, where 64 percent live, Nyamira County, where 20 percent live and Nakuru County, where 14 percent live. Beside Kenya Somoni exists in 24 countries. It is also common in Nigeria, where 17 percent live and Tajikistan, where 3 percent live.
Somoni Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Somoni has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the last name fell 67 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Somoni Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those bearing the Somoni last name is primarily 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
- 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 Somoni
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