Sountra Surname
Approximately 771 people bear this surname
Sountra Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 717 | 1:25,596 | 1,581 |
| Ivory Coast | 41 | 1:562,713 | 17,068 |
| India | 6 | 1:127,844,230 | 863,365 |
| Mali | 4 | 1:4,242,259 | 2,433 |
| Pakistan | 3 | 1:59,547,962 | 132,569 |
Sountra Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sountra Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Sountra is more commonly found in Burkina Faso than any other country or territory. It may appear as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Sountra? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 443,157th most frequently used last name on earth, held by around 1 in 9,452,070 people. This last name is primarily found in Africa, where 97 percent of Sountra reside; 97 percent reside in West Africa and 82 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The surname is most commonly held in Burkina Faso, where it is held by 717 people, or 1 in 25,596. In Burkina Faso it is most frequent in: Hauts-Bassins Region, where 97 percent reside, Centre Region, where 1 percent reside and Boucle du Mouhoun Region, where 0 percent reside. Barring Burkina Faso it occurs in 4 countries. It is also common in The Ivory Coast, where 5 percent reside and India, where 1 percent reside.
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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 Sountra
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