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 surname Sontie is found in Burkina Faso more than any other country or territory. It may also be rendered as: Sontié. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Sontie? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 134,880th most widely held family name internationally. It is borne by around 1 in 2,184,516 people. The surname Sontie occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Sontie reside; 99 percent reside in West Africa and 93 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 611,412th most frequent first name throughout the world It is held by 218 people.
This surname is most frequent in Burkina Faso, where it is held by 3,310 people, or 1 in 5,544. In Burkina Faso it is mostly found in: Cascades Region, where 88 percent are found, Hauts-Bassins Region, where 7 percent are found and Centre Region, where 4 percent are found. Without taking into account Burkina Faso this surname is found in 6 countries. It is also found 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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