Sounte Surname
Approximately 46 people bear this surname
Sounte Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 19 | 1:1,093,109 | 67,608 |
| India | 13 | 1:59,005,029 | 552,550 |
| Burkina Faso | 10 | 1:1,835,210 | 14,348 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
Sounte Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sounte Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Sounte (Marathi: सौन्ते) is found most frequently in Cameroon. It may be found as:. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Sounte? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 2,876,555th most frequently occurring surname throughout the world It is held by approximately 1 in 158,424,911 people. Sounte occurs predominantly in Africa, where 67 percent of Sounte reside; 41 percent reside in Central Africa and 41 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa.
The last name is most frequent in Cameroon, where it is held by 19 people, or 1 in 1,093,109. In Cameroon it is most frequent in: Centre Region, where 84 percent reside and West Region, where 16 percent reside. Not including Cameroon this surname is found in 4 countries. It also occurs in India, where 28 percent reside and Burkina Faso, where 22 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Sounte Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Sounte in the Marathi language | ||
| सौन्ते | saunte | - |
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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 Sounte
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