Sontea Surname
Approximately 451 people bear this surname
Sontea Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Romania | 320 | 1:62,743 | 7,551 |
| Moldova | 129 | 1:27,608 | 4,499 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
The alternate forms: Şontea (9) are calculated separately.
Sontea Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sontea Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Sontea is carried by more people in Romania than any other country or territory. It can also occur in the variant forms: Şontea. Click here to see other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Sontea? popularity and diffusion
Sontea is the 664,903rd most prevalent surname on a worldwide basis, borne by around 1 in 16,158,638 people. The last name is predominantly found in Europe, where 100 percent of Sontea live; 100 percent live in Eastern Europe and 100 percent live in Romanian Europe.
The last name is most common in Romania, where it is borne by 320 people, or 1 in 62,743. In Romania it is most frequent in: Dâmbovița County, where 78 percent live, Mehedinți County, where 11 percent live and Timiș County, where 10 percent live. Outside of Romania this surname occurs in 3 countries. It also occurs in Moldova, where 29 percent live and India, where 0 percent live.
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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 Sontea
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