Sono Surname
Approximately 23,489 people bear this surname
Sono Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 8,083 | 1:6,703 | 866 |
| Japan | 5,705 | 1:22,409 | 2,440 |
| Indonesia | 2,888 | 1:45,793 | 5,183 |
| Pakistan | 2,384 | 1:74,935 | 2,681 |
| Peru | 875 | 1:36,325 | 3,494 |
| Ghana | 416 | 1:64,954 | 6,785 |
| India | 413 | 1:1,857,301 | 65,292 |
| Egypt | 366 | 1:251,191 | 17,305 |
| DR Congo | 308 | 1:239,869 | 23,092 |
| Botswana | 243 | 1:9,000 | 1,624 |
| Thailand | 220 | 1:321,083 | 55,306 |
| Papua New Guinea | 162 | 1:50,332 | 6,316 |
| Zimbabwe | 136 | 1:113,516 | 15,504 |
| Morocco | 136 | 1:253,501 | 42,794 |
| United States | 119 | 1:3,045,873 | 177,373 |
| Tanzania | 106 | 1:499,449 | 33,339 |
| Niger | 106 | 1:181,057 | 6,330 |
| Cameroon | 102 | 1:203,618 | 20,947 |
| Uganda | 74 | 1:527,558 | 29,544 |
| Brazil | 72 | 1:2,973,255 | 87,092 |
| Albania | 65 | 1:44,832 | 6,104 |
| Solomon Islands | 52 | 1:11,154 | 1,975 |
| Ecuador | 44 | 1:361,496 | 9,599 |
| Italy | 44 | 1:1,389,925 | 78,899 |
| Philippines | 43 | 1:2,354,377 | 127,644 |
| Portugal | 38 | 1:274,164 | 10,086 |
| England | 32 | 1:1,741,189 | 71,393 |
| Lesotho | 29 | 1:70,088 | 9,364 |
| Mozambique | 25 | 1:1,090,463 | 1,880 |
| Malaysia | 23 | 1:1,282,358 | 54,976 |
| Spain | 18 | 1:2,597,335 | 59,996 |
| Lebanon | 18 | 1:313,171 | 10,344 |
| Singapore | 13 | 1:423,669 | 18,211 |
| Russia | 13 | 1:11,086,389 | 347,183 |
| Nigeria | 13 | 1:13,626,366 | 237,812 |
| France | 9 | 1:7,380,302 | 306,885 |
| Canada | 9 | 1:4,093,955 | 205,175 |
| Gabon | 9 | 1:209,910 | 2,378 |
| United Arab Emirates | 9 | 1:1,018,030 | 36,884 |
| Taiwan | 8 | 1:2,930,593 | 17,989 |
| Greece | 7 | 1:1,582,827 | 88,377 |
| Australia | 5 | 1:5,399,140 | 162,351 |
| Kuwait | 4 | 1:950,174 | 18,811 |
| Belgium | 3 | 1:3,832,215 | 117,288 |
| Benin | 3 | 1:3,445,201 | 77,822 |
| Burkina Faso | 3 | 1:6,117,367 | 22,156 |
| Chile | 3 | 1:5,872,158 | 52,204 |
| Switzerland | 3 | 1:2,737,638 | 105,941 |
| Syria | 2 | 1:9,650,511 | 17,817 |
| South Korea | 2 | 1:25,620,128 | 4,175 |
| Venezuela | 2 | 1:15,102,038 | 69,873 |
| Liberia | 2 | 1:2,204,268 | 40,131 |
| Swaziland | 1 | 1:1,298,199 | 1,718 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1:159,356,773 | 26,077 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Costa Rica | 1 | 1:4,780,069 | 13,345 |
| Namibia | 1 | 1:2,409,401 | 19,676 |
| Monaco | 1 | 1:37,066 | 4,748 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Madagascar | 1 | 1:23,649,837 | 9,420 |
| Lithuania | 1 | 1:3,034,588 | 47,401 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Jordan | 1 | 1:8,842,437 | 26,010 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1:50,218,684 | 817,899 |
The alternate forms: Soño (11) are calculated separately.
Sono (53,809) may also be a first name.
Sono Demographics
Average Sono Salary in
United States
$50,105 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Sono Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sono Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Sono (Arabic: صونو, Bengali: সোনো, Hindi: सोनो, Marathi: सोनो, Russian: Соно) occurs most in South Africa. It may be rendered in the variant forms: Soño. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Sono? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 23,085th most frequently used surname globally, borne by around 1 in 310,254 people. The last name Sono occurs predominantly in Asia, where 50 percent of Sono are found; 36 percent are found in Southern Africa and 36 percent are found in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 17,371st most frequently occurring first name globally. It is borne by 53,809 people.
The surname is most common in South Africa, where it is borne by 8,083 people, or 1 in 6,703. In South Africa Sono is most numerous in: Gauteng, where 33 percent reside, Limpopo, where 21 percent reside and Mpumalanga, where 20 percent reside. Barring South Africa this surname exists in 73 countries. It also occurs in Japan, where 24 percent reside and Indonesia, where 12 percent reside.
Sono Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Sono has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Sono last name increased 11,900 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Sono Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the Sono surname is predominantly Sunni (100%) in Lebanon.
In The United States Sono are 37.68% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than The US average, with 90.91% being registered to vote for the party.
The amount Sono earn in different countries varies markedly. In Peru they earn 12.43% more than the national average, earning S/. 21,794 per year; in South Africa they earn 27.69% less than the national average, earning R 171,828 per year; in United States they earn 16.12% more than the national average, earning $50,105 USD per year and in Canada they earn 1.15% more than the national average, earning $50,252 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Sono Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Sono in the Bengali language | ||
| সোনো | sono | - |
| Sono in the Marathi language | ||
| सोनो | sono | - |
| Sono in the Hindi language | ||
| सोनो | sono | 96.85 |
| सोनू | sonu | 2.19 |
| सोनी | soni | 0.29 |
| सोना | sona | 0.19 |
| सॊनॊ | sono | 0.19 |
| सन्नो | sanno | 0.1 |
| सोनों | sonom | 0.1 |
| सॉनो | sono | 0.1 |
| Sono in the Russian language | ||
| Соно | sono | - |
| Sono in the Arabic language | ||
| صونو | swnw | - |
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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 Sono
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