Sountara Surname
Approximately 183 people bear this surname
Sountara Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 162 | 1:113,285 | 3,348 |
| Ivory Coast | 15 | 1:1,538,082 | 31,691 |
| Guinea | 4 | 1:2,958,454 | 2,022 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Mali | 1 | 1:16,969,035 | 4,067 |
Sountara Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sountara Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Sountara is most common in Burkina Faso. It can occur as:. Click here to see other potential spellings of Sountara.
How Common Is The Last Name Sountara? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,257,535th most common surname worldwide, borne by around 1 in 39,822,655 people. The surname is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Sountara live; 99 percent live in West Africa and 95 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
It is most numerous in Burkina Faso, where it is carried by 162 people, or 1 in 113,285. In Burkina Faso Sountara is most prevalent in: Boucle du Mouhoun Region, where 89 percent live and Hauts-Bassins Region, where 11 percent live. Besides Burkina Faso Sountara is found in 4 countries. It is also common in The Ivory Coast, where 8 percent live and Guinea, where 2 percent live.
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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 Sountara
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