Sopele Surname
Approximately 153 people bear this surname
Sopele Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 150 | 1:492,530 | 39,325 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| Latvia | 1 | 1:2,050,046 | 60,295 |
Sopele Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sopele Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Sopele is found most frequently in The DR Congo. It can occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Sopele? popularity and diffusion
The surname Sopele is the 1,415,499th most common surname globally It is held by approximately 1 in 47,631,019 people. It is predominantly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Sopele are found; 98 percent are found in Central Africa and 98 percent are found in Central Bantu Africa.
This last name is most common in The DR Congo, where it is borne by 150 people, or 1 in 492,530. Aside from The DR Congo this surname exists in 2 countries. It is also found in South Africa, where 1 percent live and Latvia, where 1 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 Sopele
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