Soulé Surname
Approximately 1,409 people bear this surname
Soulé Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Comoros | 663 | 1:1,131 | 163 |
| Mauritania | 397 | 1:10,315 | 1,066 |
| France | 153 | 1:434,135 | 62,815 |
| Niger | 58 | 1:330,897 | 9,684 |
| Benin | 29 | 1:356,400 | 27,355 |
| Cape Verde | 28 | 1:18,916 | 708 |
| United States | 18 | 1:20,136,607 | 622,629 |
| Switzerland | 13 | 1:631,763 | 43,230 |
| Mexico | 7 | 1:17,732,315 | 50,495 |
| Argentina | 6 | 1:7,123,902 | 190,047 |
| Cameroon | 5 | 1:4,153,814 | 129,697 |
| Madagascar | 4 | 1:5,912,459 | 5,394 |
| Canada | 4 | 1:9,211,398 | 321,528 |
| Togo | 4 | 1:1,811,942 | 8,122 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| Brazil | 3 | 1:71,358,111 | 770,017 |
| Ivory Coast | 2 | 1:11,535,616 | 61,806 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 1:8,443,588 | 136,641 |
| Senegal | 2 | 1:7,289,671 | 8,117 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Malta | 1 | 1:430,272 | 3,380 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Angola | 1 | 1:26,989,214 | 11,853 |
The alternate forms: Soule (68,341), Soulè (3) & Šoule (13) are calculated separately.
Soulé (1,621) may also be a first name.
Soulé Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Soulé Come From? nationality or country of origin
Soulé is borne by more people in Comoros than any other country/territory. It may also be found in the variant forms: Soule, Soulè or Šoule. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Soulé? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 275,425th most common family name in the world It is held by around 1 in 5,172,140 people. The surname Soulé occurs mostly in Africa, where 85 percent of Soulé live; 47 percent live in East Africa and 47 percent live in Afro-Islamic Indian Ocean. It is also the 191,769th most frequently occurring given name internationally. It is borne by 1,621 people.
The last name Soulé is most frequently occurring in Comoros, where it is carried by 663 people, or 1 in 1,131. Barring Comoros it exists in 25 countries. It also occurs in Mauritania, where 28 percent are found and France, where 11 percent are found.
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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 Soulé
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