Sontas Surname
Approximately 40 people bear this surname
Sontas Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greece | 30 | 1:369,326 | 50,921 |
| Austria | 2 | 1:4,257,718 | 99,224 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Israel | 2 | 1:4,278,817 | 136,311 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| 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: Sontaş (84) are calculated separately.
Sontas (38) may also be a first name.
Sontas Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sontas Come From? nationality or country of origin
Sontas is borne by more people in Greece than any other country/territory. It may be rendered as: Sontaş. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Sontas? popularity and diffusion
Sontas is the 3,100,440th most frequent family name world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 182,188,648 people. Sontas occurs predominantly in Europe, where 85 percent of Sontas live; 75 percent live in Southeastern Europe and 75 percent live in Helleno-Europe. Sontas is also the 1,662,754th most frequently occurring forename in the world, held by 38 people.
This surname is most frequent in Greece, where it is borne by 30 people, or 1 in 369,326. In Greece Sontas is most prevalent in: Attica, where 87 percent live and East Macedonia and Thrace, where 13 percent live. Barring Greece this surname exists in 6 countries. It is also common in Austria, where 5 percent live and Brazil, where 5 percent live.
Sontas Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Sontas has changed over time. In The United States the share of the population with the last name grew 200 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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 Sontas
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