Sounfoutera Surname

4,908,606th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 16 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Ivory Coast
Highest density in:
Ivory Coast

Sounfoutera Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

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Sounfoutera Surname Distribution Map

By incidenceBy frequencyBy rank
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ivory Coast151:1,538,08231,691
Mali11:16,969,0354,067

Sounfoutera Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Sounfoutera Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Sounfoutera is borne by more people in The Ivory Coast than any other country/territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Sounfoutera? popularity and diffusion

It is the 4,908,606th most widespread family name throughout the world It is held by around 1 in 455,471,620 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 50 percent of Sounfoutera live; 50 percent live in West Africa and 44 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.

This surname is most common in The Ivory Coast, where it is carried by 15 people, or 1 in 1,538,082. In The Ivory Coast it is most prevalent in: Abidjan Autonomous District, where 53 percent live and Sassandra-Marahoué District, where 47 percent live. Other than The Ivory Coast this surname exists in one country. It is also common in Mali, where 6 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ASimilarity (high to low)Similarity (low to high)Prevalent jurisdiction A-ZPrevalent jurisdiction Z-A
SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Sonfoutera951/
Senfter67666/
Sanfo-Dera671/
Sanfter670/
Confeitero571/
Confeiteiro5573/

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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 Sounfoutera
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