Sonfils Surname

3,100,440th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 40 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Haiti
Highest density in:
Haiti

Sonfils Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Sonfils Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Haiti381:281,1559,538
France11:66,422,722504,397
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Sonfils (69) may also be a first name.

Sonfils Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Sonfils Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Sonfils is held by more people in Haiti than any other country or territory. It can occur in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Sonfils.

How Common Is The Last Name Sonfils? popularity and diffusion

Sonfils is the 3,100,440th most frequently occurring last name on a global scale. It is borne by approximately 1 in 182,188,648 people. The surname Sonfils occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 98 percent of Sonfils are found; 95 percent are found in Caribbean and 95 percent are found in Gallo-Caribbean. Sonfils is also the 1,171,416th most frequently held first name at a global level, borne by 69 people.

The last name is most commonly used in Haiti, where it is borne by 38 people, or 1 in 281,155. In Haiti Sonfils is mostly concentrated in: Ouest, where 100 percent are found. Aside from Haiti this surname exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in France, where 3 percent are found and The United States, where 3 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Schonfels751/
Janfils716/
Shotenfels715/
Zanfils715/
Shaunfiels711/
Shottenfels671/
Siamfils671/
Schottenfels6327/
Johnfilce630/
Sanfelz570/
Canfells531/

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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 Sonfils
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