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
Sono Political Affiliation
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Sono Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sono Come From? nationality or country of origin
Sono (Arabic: صونو, Bengali: সোনো, Hindi: सोनो, Marathi: सोनो, Russian: Соно) occurs in South Africa more than any other country/territory. It can occur in the variant forms: Soño. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Sono? popularity and diffusion
The last name Sono is the 23,085th most commonly used surname on a global scale, borne by around 1 in 310,254 people. The surname Sono occurs mostly in Asia, where 50 percent of Sono live; 36 percent live in Southern Africa and 36 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 17,371st most prevalent first name at a global level It is held by 53,809 people.
Sono is most numerous in South Africa, where it is borne by 8,083 people, or 1 in 6,703. In South Africa it is most common in: Gauteng, where 33 percent reside, Limpopo, where 21 percent reside and Mpumalanga, where 20 percent reside. Apart from South Africa Sono occurs in 73 countries. It is also common in Japan, where 24 percent reside and Indonesia, where 12 percent reside.
Sono Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Sono has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Sono last name rose 11,900 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Sono Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those carrying the Sono last name is primarily Sunni (100%) in Lebanon.
In The United States Sono are 37.68% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than the national average, with 90.91% 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
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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 Sono
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