Damayan Surname

501,369th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 656 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Philippines
Highest density in:
Philippines

Damayan Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Damayan Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Philippines6181:163,81626,880
Indonesia181:7,347,177303,310
Taiwan141:1,674,62511,030
India51:153,413,076951,030
Malaysia11:29,494,225409,885

Damayan (73) may also be a first name.

Damayan Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Damayan Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Damayan (Hindi: दमयन्ती, Marathi: दमयं) is more commonly found in The Philippines than any other country/territory. It may also appear as:. For other potential spellings of Damayan click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Damayan? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 501,369th most widespread surname globally It is held by around 1 in 11,109,064 people. This last name occurs mostly in Asia, where 100 percent of Damayan live; 97 percent live in Southeast Asia and 93 percent live in Fil-Southeast Asia. Damayan is also the 1,134,117th most frequent first name world-wide It is held by 73 people.

The last name is most commonly occurring in The Philippines, where it is carried by 618 people, or 1 in 163,816. In The Philippines Damayan is mostly concentrated in: Mimaropa, where 28 percent live, Cordillera Administrative Region, where 15 percent live and Calabarzon, where 14 percent live. Barring The Philippines this last name exists in 4 countries. It is also found in Indonesia, where 3 percent live and Taiwan, where 2 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

Damayan Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Damayan in the Hindi language
दमयन्तीdamayanti84.62
डामायनdamayana7.69
दमयानाdamayana7.69
Damayan in the Marathi language
दमयंdamayam81.82
दमयानdamayana9.09
दमयनdamayana9.09

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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 Damayan
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