Soukaba Surname
Approximately 24 people bear this surname
Soukaba Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 23 | 1:178,038 | 9,291 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
Soukaba Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Soukaba Come From? nationality or country of origin
Soukaba (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺳﻜﺎﺑﻪ) has its highest incidence in Mauritania. It may be rendered as:. Click here for further potential spellings of Soukaba.
How Common Is The Last Name Soukaba? popularity and diffusion
The last name Soukaba is the 4,034,050th most common last name throughout the world. It is borne by around 1 in 303,647,746 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Soukaba are found; 100 percent are found in West Africa and 96 percent are found in Senegambia Africa.
The surname Soukaba is most widely held in Mauritania, where it is carried by 23 people, or 1 in 178,038. In Mauritania Soukaba is most numerous in: Nouakchott-Sud Region, where 78 percent live, Brakna Region, where 9 percent live and Guidimagha Region, where 4 percent live. Besides Mauritania this surname occurs in one country. It is also common in Niger, where 4 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Soukaba Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Soukaba in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺳﻜﺎﺑﻪ | skabh | 75 |
| ﺳﻜﺎﺏ | skab | 25 |
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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
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- 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 Soukaba
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