Sountan Surname
Approximately 10 people bear this surname
Sountan Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 5 | 1:35,428,552 | 388,973 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
Sountan (22) may also be a first name.
Sountan Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sountan Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Sountan has its highest incidence in Nigeria. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Sountan? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 6,063,924th most widely held last name globally It is held by approximately 1 in 728,754,592 people. The surname Sountan occurs mostly in Africa, where 80 percent of Sountan live; 80 percent live in West Africa and 60 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Sountan is also the 2,301,746th most frequent first name worldwide, held by 22 people.
This surname is most commonly occurring in Nigeria, where it is held by 5 people, or 1 in 35,428,552. In Nigeria Sountan is most frequent in: Ogun, where 80 percent are found and Ondo, where 20 percent are found. Excluding Nigeria it is found in 4 countries. It is also common in Niger, where 20 percent are found and India, where 10 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 Sountan
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