Sowade Surname
Approximately 978 people bear this surname
Sowade Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 468 | 1:172,020 | 20,234 |
| Benin | 222 | 1:46,557 | 5,908 |
| Nigeria | 192 | 1:922,619 | 39,799 |
| Uganda | 59 | 1:661,683 | 33,952 |
| South Africa | 9 | 1:6,019,745 | 157,966 |
| Papua New Guinea | 8 | 1:1,019,215 | 101,897 |
| Brazil | 5 | 1:42,814,866 | 547,158 |
| Canada | 5 | 1:7,369,118 | 289,406 |
| England | 5 | 1:11,143,612 | 252,590 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
Sowade (10) may also be a first name.
Sowade Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sowade Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Sowade is more frequently found in Germany than any other country or territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Sowade click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Sowade? popularity and diffusion
The surname Sowade is the 368,021st most common surname world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 7,451,478 people. The surname is mostly found in Africa, where 49 percent of Sowade live; 48 percent live in Western Europe and 48 percent live in Germanic Europe. Sowade is also the 3,684,242nd most common first name internationally, borne by 10 people.
The last name is most commonly held in Germany, where it is carried by 468 people, or 1 in 172,020. In Germany Sowade is primarily concentrated in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 24 percent are found, Lower Saxony, where 16 percent are found and Bavaria, where 12 percent are found. Other than Germany this surname is found in 11 countries. It is also found in Benin, where 23 percent are found and Nigeria, where 20 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 Sowade
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