Sovela Surname
Approximately 485 people bear this surname
Sovela Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 416 | 1:127,263 | 11,974 |
| Portugal | 47 | 1:221,665 | 8,706 |
| Finland | 16 | 1:343,544 | 24,270 |
| India | 3 | 1:255,688,461 | 1,306,352 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Slovakia | 1 | 1:5,336,450 | 140,422 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Sovela Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sovela Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Sovela occurs more in Tanzania more than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Sovela? popularity and diffusion
The surname Sovela is the 630,290th most widespread last name on earth, held by approximately 1 in 15,025,868 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 86 percent of Sovela are found; 86 percent are found in East Africa and 86 percent are found in East Bantu Africa.
The surname Sovela is most frequently held in Tanzania, where it is carried by 416 people, or 1 in 127,263. In Tanzania Sovela is most frequent in: Njombe Region, where 29 percent live, Dodoma Region, where 25 percent live and Mbeya Region, where 19 percent live. Barring Tanzania this surname exists in 6 countries. It also occurs in Portugal, where 10 percent live and Finland, where 3 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
- 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 Sovela
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