Sontie Surname
Approximately 3,336 people bear this surname
Sontie Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 3,310 | 1:5,544 | 617 |
| Ivory Coast | 13 | 1:1,774,710 | 34,235 |
| South Africa | 9 | 1:6,019,745 | 157,966 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Cuba | 1 | 1:11,522,716 | 17,380 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
The alternate forms: Sontié (1) are calculated separately.
Sontie (218) may also be a first name.
Sontie Demographics
Average Sontie Salary in
South Africa
R 64,356
Per year
Average Salary in
South Africa
R 237,638
Per year
Sontie Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sontie Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Sontie is held by more people in Burkina Faso than any other country or territory. It may be found as a variant: Sontié. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Sontie? popularity and diffusion
The surname Sontie is the 134,880th most commonly held last name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by around 1 in 2,184,516 people. This last name is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Sontie live; 99 percent live in West Africa and 93 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 611,412th most frequent given name worldwide. It is borne by 218 people.
The last name is most commonly used in Burkina Faso, where it is carried by 3,310 people, or 1 in 5,544. In Burkina Faso it is most common in: Cascades Region, where 88 percent are found, Hauts-Bassins Region, where 7 percent are found and Centre Region, where 4 percent are found. Apart from Burkina Faso this surname is found in 6 countries. It is also common in The Ivory Coast, where 0 percent are found and South Africa, where 0 percent are found.
Sontie Last Name Statistics demography
Sontie earn less than half the average income. In South Africa they earn 72.92% less than the national average, earning R 64,356 per year.
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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 Sontie
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