Sotome Surname
Approximately 497 people bear this surname
Sotome Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 431 | 1:23,981 | 3,219 |
| Nigeria | 22 | 1:8,051,944 | 174,166 |
| Japan | 12 | 1:10,653,691 | 45,407 |
| France | 9 | 1:7,380,302 | 306,885 |
| England | 6 | 1:9,286,343 | 223,652 |
| United States | 6 | 1:60,409,822 | 1,028,827 |
| Brazil | 4 | 1:53,518,583 | 632,670 |
| Philippines | 2 | 1:50,619,112 | 341,003 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
The alternate forms: Sotomé (1) are calculated separately.
Sotome (222) may also be a first name.
Sotome Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sotome Come From? nationality or country of origin
Sotome occurs more in Benin more than any other country/territory. It can occur as a variant: Sotomé. For other potential spellings of Sotome click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Sotome? popularity and diffusion
The last name Sotome is the 618,896th most common last name globally, held by approximately 1 in 14,663,070 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 91 percent of Sotome live; 91 percent live in West Africa and 91 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Sotome is also the 605,116th most commonly used first name on earth, held by 222 people.
The surname Sotome is most commonly used in Benin, where it is carried by 431 people, or 1 in 23,981. In Benin it is most common in: Kouffo Department, where 81 percent reside, Zou Department, where 5 percent reside and Atlantique Department, where 3 percent reside. Besides Benin this last name occurs in 12 countries. It is also common in Nigeria, where 4 percent reside and Japan, where 2 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 Sotome
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