Šket Surname
Approximately 975 people bear this surname
Šket Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slovenia | 890 | 1:2,795 | 385 |
| Croatia | 84 | 1:50,341 | 9,673 |
| North Macedonia | 1 | 1:2,101,472 | 31,546 |
The alternate forms: Sket (308) & Skét (1) are calculated separately.
Šket Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Šket Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Šket is more commonly found in Slovenia than any other country/territory. It can be found as: Sket or Skét. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Šket? popularity and diffusion
It is the 368,903rd most frequently held family name on earth, borne by around 1 in 7,474,406 people. The surname occurs mostly in Europe, where 100 percent of Šket live; 100 percent live in Southeastern Europe and 100 percent live in South Slavic Europe.
This surname is most frequently used in Slovenia, where it is borne by 890 people, or 1 in 2,795. In Slovenia Šket is mostly found in: Savinja, where 68 percent are found, Drava, where 19 percent are found and Central Slovenia, where 9 percent are found. Apart from Slovenia this last name occurs in 2 countries. It is also common in Croatia, where 9 percent are found and North Macedonia, where 0 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 Šket
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