Tekle Surname
Approximately 163,993 people bear this surname
Tekle Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ethiopia | 95,300 | 1:1,024 | 180 |
| Eritrea | 62,005 | 1:77 | 16 |
| Sudan | 2,520 | 1:14,885 | 2,042 |
| United States | 1,109 | 1:326,834 | 29,687 |
| India | 769 | 1:997,484 | 42,144 |
| Sweden | 440 | 1:22,379 | 1,850 |
| Turkey | 395 | 1:197,016 | 14,536 |
| Benin | 253 | 1:40,852 | 5,255 |
| Saudi Arabia | 239 | 1:129,104 | 17,726 |
| Egypt | 183 | 1:502,381 | 28,715 |
| England | 178 | 1:313,023 | 23,520 |
| Canada | 143 | 1:257,661 | 24,352 |
| Netherlands | 75 | 1:225,162 | 29,957 |
| Norway | 63 | 1:81,624 | 11,355 |
| Germany | 54 | 1:1,490,842 | 90,195 |
| United Arab Emirates | 39 | 1:234,930 | 15,673 |
| Kuwait | 39 | 1:97,454 | 10,676 |
| Switzerland | 23 | 1:357,083 | 27,273 |
| Belgium | 23 | 1:499,854 | 48,667 |
| Italy | 14 | 1:4,368,335 | 106,343 |
| Qatar | 12 | 1:196,500 | 26,891 |
| France | 11 | 1:6,038,429 | 280,838 |
| South Africa | 11 | 1:4,925,246 | 143,631 |
| Australia | 10 | 1:2,699,570 | 109,631 |
| Rwanda | 9 | 1:1,262,775 | 2,632 |
| Ghana | 9 | 1:3,002,299 | 11,581 |
| Uganda | 8 | 1:4,879,910 | 106,546 |
| Thailand | 7 | 1:10,091,192 | 512,203 |
| Ivory Coast | 5 | 1:4,614,246 | 51,139 |
| Djibouti | 4 | 1:228,733 | 966 |
| Morocco | 4 | 1:8,619,025 | 73,251 |
| Iceland | 3 | 1:126,697 | 5,403 |
| Georgia | 3 | 1:1,248,515 | 28,066 |
| Finland | 3 | 1:1,832,234 | 57,803 |
| Israel | 2 | 1:4,278,817 | 136,311 |
| Denmark | 2 | 1:2,822,358 | 76,882 |
| China | 2 | 1:683,660,783 | 30,601 |
| Bulgaria | 2 | 1:3,489,452 | 64,958 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Yemen | 1 | 1:26,425,294 | 55,147 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Swaziland | 1 | 1:1,298,199 | 1,718 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| South Korea | 1 | 1:51,240,256 | 8,015 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Northern Cyprus | 1 | 1:319,011 | 10,202 |
| Monaco | 1 | 1:37,066 | 4,748 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 1:5,637,083 | 32,436 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Jamaica | 1 | 1:2,869,947 | 13,896 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 1 | 1:1,135,674 | 984 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
The alternate forms: Teklé (1) are calculated separately.
Tekle (319,630) may also be a first name.
Tekle Demographics
Average Male Tekle Height
172.84 cm
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Tekle Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tekle Come From? nationality or country of origin
Tekle (Arabic: تكلي, Georgian: თეკლე, Hindi: टेकले, Marathi: टेकळे, Russian: Текле) is found in Ethiopia more than any other country or territory. It can also appear in the variant forms: Teklé. For other potential spellings of Tekle click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Tekle? popularity and diffusion
The last name Tekle is the 3,416th most commonly held last name on earth, borne by around 1 in 44,438 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 98 percent of Tekle are found; 96 percent are found in East Africa and 96 percent are found in Ethiosemitic Africa. Tekle is also the 3,276th most frequently used given name world-wide. It is borne by 319,630 people.
This last name is most frequently occurring in Ethiopia, where it is borne by 95,300 people, or 1 in 1,024. Other than Ethiopia it is found in 57 countries. It is also found in Eritrea, where 38 percent are found and Sudan, where 2 percent are found.
Tekle Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Tekle surname are 44.94% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 98.17% registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Tekle earn in different countries varies notably. In Norway they earn 29.03% less than the national average, earning 245,613 kr per year; in United States they earn 5.5% less than the national average, earning $40,774 USD per year and in Canada they earn 28.84% less than the national average, earning $35,354 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Tekle Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Tekle in the Georgian language | ||
| თეკლე | tekle | - |
| Tekle in the Hindi language | ||
| टेकले | tekale | - |
| Tekle in the Marathi language | ||
| टेकळे | tekale | 59.61 |
| टेकले | tekale | 38.87 |
| टकले | takale | 0.34 |
| टेकाळे | tekale | 0.17 |
| Tekle in the Russian language | ||
| Текле | tekle | - |
| Tekle in the Arabic language | ||
| تكلي | tkly | - |
| تيكلي | tykly | - |
| تكله | tklh | - |
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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 Tekle
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