Suku Surname
Approximately 5,950 people bear this surname
Suku Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 1,179 | 1:150,248 | 9,540 |
| Indonesia | 912 | 1:145,010 | 14,295 |
| India | 760 | 1:1,009,297 | 42,514 |
| Papua New Guinea | 584 | 1:13,962 | 1,328 |
| Liberia | 534 | 1:8,256 | 951 |
| Tanzania | 496 | 1:106,737 | 10,381 |
| DR Congo | 308 | 1:239,869 | 23,092 |
| Albania | 189 | 1:15,418 | 2,749 |
| South Africa | 173 | 1:313,166 | 29,785 |
| Kenya | 149 | 1:309,932 | 19,396 |
| Uganda | 107 | 1:364,853 | 23,632 |
| Pakistan | 106 | 1:1,685,320 | 17,438 |
| Thailand | 71 | 1:994,906 | 151,495 |
| Zimbabwe | 64 | 1:241,222 | 26,284 |
| United States | 56 | 1:6,472,481 | 306,764 |
| United Arab Emirates | 48 | 1:190,881 | 13,202 |
| Malaysia | 41 | 1:719,371 | 33,828 |
| Solomon Islands | 34 | 1:17,060 | 3,300 |
| England | 26 | 1:2,143,002 | 82,017 |
| Angola | 25 | 1:1,079,569 | 3,117 |
| Singapore | 17 | 1:323,983 | 13,856 |
| Russia | 10 | 1:14,412,306 | 394,810 |
| Qatar | 9 | 1:262,000 | 30,726 |
| Spain | 7 | 1:6,678,862 | 92,666 |
| Netherlands | 7 | 1:2,412,454 | 94,797 |
| Canada | 6 | 1:6,140,932 | 260,641 |
| Greece | 5 | 1:2,215,958 | 91,893 |
| Benin | 4 | 1:2,583,900 | 73,293 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| Nepal | 2 | 1:14,240,478 | 17,812 |
| Philippines | 2 | 1:50,619,112 | 341,003 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
| Bahrain | 1 | 1:1,348,608 | 10,432 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 1 | 1:1,135,674 | 984 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Oman | 1 | 1:3,687,971 | 14,390 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Maldives | 1 | 1:404,172 | 7,269 |
| Guyana | 1 | 1:762,221 | 14,420 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
Suku (41,472) may also be a first name.
Suku Demographics
Average Suku Salary in
United States
$33,516 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Suku Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Suku Come From? nationality or country of origin
Suku (Bengali: সুকু, Hindi: सुकु, Marathi: सुकु, Oriya: ଶୁକୁ, Russian: Суку, Tibetan: སུ་ཀུ་) is found most frequently in Nigeria. It can also be found as:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Suku? popularity and diffusion
The surname Suku is the 81,609th most frequently used family name globally, held by around 1 in 1,224,798 people. The last name is mostly found in Africa, where 51 percent of Suku live; 29 percent live in West Africa and 20 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Suku is also the 21,588th most numerous first name on earth. It is borne by 41,472 people.
This last name is most frequently held in Nigeria, where it is carried by 1,179 people, or 1 in 150,248. In Nigeria Suku is most frequent in: Rivers, where 55 percent reside, Kaduna, where 15 percent reside and Bayelsa, where 8 percent reside. Without taking into account Nigeria it is found in 47 countries. It also occurs in Indonesia, where 15 percent reside and India, where 13 percent reside.
Suku Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those bearing the surname is primarily Christian (60%) in Kenya.
In The United States those bearing the Suku surname are 16.77% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than The US average, with 70% registered with the political party.
The amount Suku earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 62.93% less than the national average, earning R 88,092 per year; in United States they earn 22.32% less than the national average, earning $33,516 USD per year and in Canada they earn 0.37% less than the national average, earning $49,499 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Suku Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Suku in the Bengali language | ||
| সুকু | suku | 92.75 |
| সুকুলক্ষ্মী | sukulaksmi | 2.11 |
| শুকু | suku | 0.6 |
| সুকূ | suku | 0.3 |
| Suku in the Tibetan language | ||
| སུ་ཀུ་ | suku | 85.71 |
| སུག་ཀུ་ | sukku | 5.71 |
| སུ་ཀུ | suku | 2.86 |
| སུ་ཀི་ | suki | 2.86 |
| སུཀུ་ | suku | 2.86 |
| Suku in the Marathi language | ||
| सुकु | suku | 55.17 |
| सुकू | suku | 34.74 |
| सूकू | suku | 8.68 |
| सूकु | suku | 0.64 |
| सुक | suka | 0.38 |
| सूक | suka | 0.13 |
| असुकु | asuku | 0.13 |
| सुकूं | sukum | 0.13 |
| Suku in the Oriya language | ||
| ଶୁକୁ | suku | 50.95 |
| ସୁକୁ | suku | 46.82 |
| ଶୁକୂ | suku | 0.33 |
| ସୁକୂ | suku | 0.33 |
| ସୁକ | suka | 0.17 |
| ସୂକୁ | suku | 0.17 |
| ସୁଖୁ | sukhu | 0.17 |
| ଶୁକୃ | sukr | 0.17 |
| ମୁକୁ | muku | 0.08 |
| ସୁକା | suka | 0.08 |
| ଶୂକୂ | suku | 0.08 |
| ଶୁକା | suka | 0.08 |
| ସୁକୃ | sukr | 0.08 |
| ଶୁକ | suka | 0.08 |
| Suku in the Hindi language | ||
| सुकु | suku | 43.85 |
| सुकू | suku | 33.08 |
| सूकू | suku | 9.23 |
| सुकुआ | suku'a | 7.69 |
| सूकु | suku | 2.31 |
| शुकु | suku | 0.77 |
| Suku in the Russian language | ||
| Суку | suku | - |
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Footnotes
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