Zeleke Surname
Approximately 136,481 people bear this surname
Zeleke Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ethiopia | 133,613 | 1:730 | 119 |
| Sudan | 2,240 | 1:16,746 | 2,298 |
| United States | 424 | 1:854,856 | 65,098 |
| Canada | 57 | 1:646,414 | 52,764 |
| Norway | 17 | 1:302,487 | 30,120 |
| England | 16 | 1:3,482,379 | 114,324 |
| Germany | 14 | 1:5,750,390 | 205,224 |
| Sweden | 13 | 1:757,443 | 56,422 |
| Italy | 12 | 1:5,096,391 | 108,968 |
| United Arab Emirates | 9 | 1:1,018,030 | 36,884 |
| Australia | 8 | 1:3,374,463 | 124,818 |
| Russia | 8 | 1:18,015,382 | 436,635 |
| South Africa | 7 | 1:7,739,672 | 177,858 |
| Switzerland | 4 | 1:2,053,229 | 97,179 |
| Czechia | 4 | 1:2,658,367 | 127,801 |
| Saudi Arabia | 4 | 1:7,713,954 | 37,548 |
| Iceland | 3 | 1:126,697 | 5,403 |
| Belgium | 3 | 1:3,832,215 | 117,288 |
| Netherlands | 3 | 1:5,629,059 | 132,535 |
| Finland | 2 | 1:2,748,351 | 72,663 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Israel | 2 | 1:4,278,817 | 136,311 |
| Croatia | 2 | 1:2,114,302 | 85,143 |
| Yemen | 1 | 1:26,425,294 | 55,147 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Somalia | 1 | 1:13,452,061 | 9,224 |
| Rwanda | 1 | 1:11,364,978 | 5,947 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Djibouti | 1 | 1:914,932 | 1,612 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
Zeleke (492,384) may also be a first name.
Zeleke Demographics
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Zeleke Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Zeleke Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Zeleke (Russian: Зелеке) is held by more people in Ethiopia than any other country/territory. It may also be found as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Zeleke? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 4,120th most widely held surname globally, held by approximately 1 in 53,396 people. This last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Zeleke reside; 98 percent reside in East Africa and 98 percent reside in Ethiosemitic Africa. Zeleke is also the 2,055th most widely held first name world-wide, borne by 492,384 people.
The surname is most commonly occurring in Ethiopia, where it is carried by 133,613 people, or 1 in 730. Beside Ethiopia this last name is found in 36 countries. It is also common in Sudan, where 2 percent reside and The United States, where 0 percent reside.
Zeleke Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Zeleke surname are 42.6% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 95.83% registered with the party.
The amount Zeleke earn in different countries varies greatly. In Norway they earn 29.49% less than the national average, earning 244,028 kr per year; in South Africa they earn 79.3% less than the national average, earning R 49,200 per year; in United States they earn 6.72% less than the national average, earning $40,248 USD per year and in Canada they earn 26.72% less than the national average, earning $36,408 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Zeleke Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Zeleke in the Russian language | ||
| Зелеке | zeleke | - |
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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 Zeleke
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