Sontaş Surname
Approximately 84 people bear this surname
Sontaş Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turkey | 75 | 1:1,037,619 | 46,427 |
| Northern Cyprus | 8 | 1:39,876 | 7,494 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
The alternate forms: Sontas (40) are calculated separately.
Sontaş Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sontaş Come From? nationality or country of origin
Sontaş is most common in Turkey. It can also be found in the variant forms: Sontas. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Sontaş? popularity and diffusion
Sontaş is the 2,047,559th most numerous family name globally. It is borne by around 1 in 86,756,499 people. This last name is mostly found in Asia, where 85 percent of Sontaş reside; 85 percent reside in West Asia and 85 percent reside in Anatolia and Highlands.
This surname is most numerous in Turkey, where it is carried by 75 people, or 1 in 1,037,619. In Turkey Sontaş is mostly found in: Van Province, where 39 percent reside, Kayseri Province, where 23 percent reside and Ankara Province, where 16 percent reside. Outside of Turkey this last name is found in 2 countries. It is also found in Northern Cyprus, where 10 percent reside and Austria, where 1 percent reside.
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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 Sontaş
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