Dema Surname
Approximately 49,194 people bear this surname
Dema Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bhutan | 29,364 | 1:21 | 4 |
| Ethiopia | 4,829 | 1:20,200 | 2,620 |
| Albania | 3,314 | 1:879 | 86 |
| Kosovo | 1,197 | 1:1,555 | 249 |
| Ukraine | 994 | 1:45,797 | 6,638 |
| India | 929 | 1:825,689 | 36,720 |
| DR Congo | 835 | 1:88,479 | 10,091 |
| Indonesia | 674 | 1:196,215 | 18,668 |
| United States | 642 | 1:564,578 | 46,424 |
| Uganda | 630 | 1:61,967 | 7,129 |
| Egypt | 610 | 1:150,714 | 11,610 |
| Italy | 547 | 1:111,804 | 18,637 |
| Cameroon | 439 | 1:47,310 | 6,203 |
| Russia | 426 | 1:338,317 | 33,790 |
| Zimbabwe | 424 | 1:36,411 | 5,628 |
| Botswana | 386 | 1:5,666 | 901 |
| Nigeria | 257 | 1:689,271 | 31,915 |
| Romania | 211 | 1:95,156 | 10,911 |
| North Macedonia | 208 | 1:10,103 | 1,651 |
| Saudi Arabia | 199 | 1:155,054 | 22,057 |
| Philippines | 179 | 1:565,577 | 63,118 |
| Haiti | 170 | 1:62,847 | 3,547 |
| Greece | 167 | 1:66,346 | 11,103 |
| South Africa | 131 | 1:413,570 | 36,044 |
| Tanzania | 124 | 1:426,948 | 29,878 |
| Papua New Guinea | 123 | 1:66,290 | 8,647 |
| Argentina | 88 | 1:485,721 | 36,028 |
| England | 86 | 1:647,884 | 37,755 |
| Ivory Coast | 67 | 1:344,347 | 12,387 |
| Thailand | 62 | 1:1,139,328 | 167,850 |
| Kuwait | 58 | 1:65,529 | 7,566 |
| Venezuela | 58 | 1:520,760 | 9,798 |
| Senegal | 53 | 1:275,082 | 1,604 |
| Australia | 47 | 1:574,377 | 41,856 |
| Switzerland | 47 | 1:174,743 | 15,901 |
| United Arab Emirates | 42 | 1:218,149 | 14,475 |
| Canada | 37 | 1:995,827 | 74,831 |
| Germany | 36 | 1:2,236,263 | 117,794 |
| Sweden | 32 | 1:307,711 | 21,451 |
| France | 31 | 1:2,142,668 | 174,004 |
| Slovenia | 31 | 1:80,248 | 10,499 |
| Belarus | 27 | 1:351,891 | 37,455 |
| Brazil | 26 | 1:8,233,628 | 183,715 |
| Mongolia | 26 | 1:108,665 | 7,123 |
| Spain | 26 | 1:1,798,155 | 50,469 |
| Taiwan | 24 | 1:976,864 | 6,814 |
| Malaysia | 21 | 1:1,404,487 | 59,312 |
| Mauritania | 21 | 1:194,993 | 9,876 |
| Mexico | 21 | 1:5,910,772 | 31,438 |
| Belgium | 20 | 1:574,832 | 53,219 |
| Benin | 18 | 1:574,200 | 35,798 |
| Niger | 17 | 1:1,128,942 | 24,295 |
| Iraq | 16 | 1:2,188,853 | 19,343 |
| Montenegro | 13 | 1:49,197 | 3,233 |
| Burkina Faso | 11 | 1:1,668,373 | 13,584 |
| Bangladesh | 9 | 1:17,706,308 | 13,537 |
| Qatar | 9 | 1:262,000 | 30,726 |
| Sri Lanka | 9 | 1:2,312,062 | 9,186 |
| Sudan | 9 | 1:4,167,799 | 5,799 |
| Liberia | 8 | 1:551,067 | 25,208 |
| Kenya | 7 | 1:6,597,129 | 51,431 |
| Kazakhstan | 6 | 1:2,947,083 | 107,736 |
| Norway | 6 | 1:857,048 | 55,549 |
| Syria | 5 | 1:3,860,204 | 11,832 |
| Turkey | 4 | 1:19,455,356 | 155,681 |
| Algeria | 3 | 1:12,877,184 | 84,902 |
| Solomon Islands | 3 | 1:193,343 | 19,495 |
| Wales | 3 | 1:1,031,511 | 34,732 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2 | 1:1,768,201 | 16,841 |
| Czechia | 2 | 1:5,316,734 | 169,646 |
| Israel | 2 | 1:4,278,817 | 136,311 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 1:8,443,588 | 136,641 |
| Scotland | 2 | 1:2,676,908 | 51,579 |
| Serbia | 2 | 1:3,572,474 | 32,645 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Azerbaijan | 1 | 1:9,649,122 | 47,873 |
| Bahrain | 1 | 1:1,348,608 | 10,432 |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 1:6,978,905 | 86,260 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Costa Rica | 1 | 1:4,780,069 | 13,345 |
| Croatia | 1 | 1:4,228,604 | 99,289 |
| Estonia | 1 | 1:1,321,804 | 40,178 |
| Georgia | 1 | 1:3,745,545 | 47,852 |
| Guam | 1 | 1:160,121 | 4,893 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Jamaica | 1 | 1:2,869,947 | 13,896 |
| Jordan | 1 | 1:8,842,437 | 26,010 |
| Latvia | 1 | 1:2,050,046 | 60,295 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 1:5,637,083 | 32,436 |
| Lithuania | 1 | 1:3,034,588 | 47,401 |
| Micronesia | 1 | 1:106,243 | 1,380 |
| Moldova | 1 | 1:3,561,368 | 78,271 |
| Monaco | 1 | 1:37,066 | 4,748 |
| Mozambique | 1 | 1:27,261,569 | 7,432 |
| Nepal | 1 | 1:28,480,956 | 22,413 |
| Oman | 1 | 1:3,687,971 | 14,390 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| United States Virgin Islands | 1 | 1:110,375 | 6,934 |
| Uzbekistan | 1 | 1:30,929,142 | 67,786 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 1 | 1:24,375,369 | 195,128 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 27 | 1:1,859,951 | 94,590 |
The alternate forms: Dêma (3) & Demá (2) are calculated separately.
Dema (46,491) may also be a first name.
Dema Demographics
Average Dema Salary in
United States
$43,921 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Dema Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Dema Come From? nationality or country of origin
Dema (Georgian: დემა, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﺩﻡ, Hindi: देमा, Marathi: देमा, Oriya: େଡମା, Russian: Дема, Tibetan: སྒྲོལ་མ།) occurs more in Bhutan more than any other country/territory. It can also be found in the variant forms: Dêma or Demá. Click here to see other potential spellings of Dema.
How Common Is The Last Name Dema? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 11,424th most prevalent last name at a global level, held by approximately 1 in 148,139 people. This surname is mostly found in Asia, where 65 percent of Dema reside; 62 percent reside in South Asia and 60 percent reside in Tibeto-South Asia. It is also the 19,654th most widely held first name throughout the world. It is borne by 46,491 people.
It is most frequently held in Bhutan, where it is held by 29,364 people, or 1 in 21. In Bhutan Dema is primarily concentrated in: Thimphu District, where 18 percent are found, Trashigang District, where 11 percent are found and Wangdue Phodrang District, where 9 percent are found. Aside from Bhutan Dema occurs in 103 countries. It is also common in Ethiopia, where 10 percent are found and Albania, where 7 percent are found.
Dema Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Dema has changed over time. In The United States the number of people bearing the Dema last name expanded 2,378 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it expanded 8,600 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Dema Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those holding the last name is chiefly Orthodox (97%) in Russia and Orthodox (83%) in Ukraine.
In The United States those bearing the Dema surname are 18.6% more likely to be registered Democrats than The US average, with 71.83% registered with the party.
The amount Dema earn in different countries varies greatly. In Italy they earn 32.97% less than the national average, earning €20,129 per year; in Norway they earn 33.73% less than the national average, earning 229,363 kr per year; in South Africa they earn 61.56% less than the national average, earning R 91,356 per year; in United States they earn 1.79% more than the national average, earning $43,921 USD per year and in Canada they earn 3.85% more than the national average, earning $51,597 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Dema Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Dema in the Georgian language | ||
| დემა | dema | - |
| Dema in the Tibetan language | ||
| སྒྲོལ་མ། | drolma | 94.72 |
| སྒྲོལ་མ་ | drolma | 4.24 |
| སྒྲོལམ། | drolam | 0.19 |
| སྒྲོལ་མ | drolma | 0.12 |
| སྒྲོལམོ། | drolmo | 0.1 |
| སྒྲཽལ་མ། | draulma | 0.06 |
| སྒྲོན་མ། | drönma | 0.04 |
| སྒྲོལ་མ་། | drolma | 0.03 |
| སྒྲོས་མ། | dröma | 0.03 |
| སྒྱོལ་མ | gyolma | 0.02 |
| སྒྲལ་མ། | dralma | 0.02 |
| སྒྲོལ་མོ། | drolmo | 0.02 |
| སྒྱོལ་མ། | gyolma | 0.02 |
| སྒྲོོལ་མ། | drolma | 0.02 |
| སྒརོལ་མ། | garolma | 0.02 |
| རྡོ་ཇེ། | dojé | 0.01 |
| སྒོལ་མ། | golma | 0.01 |
| སྒྲོལ་ས། | drolsa | 0.01 |
| སྒྲོོོལ་མ། | drolma | 0.01 |
| སྒྲོལ་ | drol | 0.01 |
| བཟངམོ། | zangmo | 0.01 |
| སྐྲོལ་མ་ | trolma | 0.01 |
| སྒྲོལ་མ༑ | drolma | 0.01 |
| ྒསྒྲོལ་མ། | drolma | 0.01 |
| ཟླ་བ། | dawa | 0.01 |
| སྒོལ་མ་། | golma | 0.01 |
| སྒྲོལ་ལམ། | drollam | 0.01 |
| སྒྲིལ་མ། | drilma | 0.01 |
| སྒྲོར་མ། | drorma | 0.01 |
| དཔལ་སྒྲོན། | paldrön | 0.01 |
| སགྲོལ་མ། | sadrolma | 0.01 |
| སྒྲོལ་མ།། | drolma | 0.01 |
| སྒྡྲོལ་མ། | sgdrolma | 0.01 |
| སྒྲོན་མ་ | drönma | 0.01 |
| སྟྔྒྲོལ་མ། | stnggrolma | 0.01 |
| ཟླ་བ་ | dawa | 0.01 |
| སྒྲོམ་ལ | dromla | 0.01 |
| ལྒྲོལ་མ། | lgrolma | 0.01 |
| སྒྔྲོལ་མ། | sgngrolma | 0.01 |
| སྒྲོལམ | drolam | 0.01 |
| སྒྲོན་ | drön | 0.01 |
| མཚོ་མོ། | tsomo | 0.01 |
| སྒྲལ་མ | dralma | 0.01 |
| སྒྲོས་མ་ | dröma | 0.01 |
| སྒྲོམ་ | drom | 0.01 |
| རྡོ་རྗེ། | dorjé | 0.01 |
| སྒྑྲོལ་མ། | sgkhrolma | 0.01 |
| སྒྲོ་མ། | droma | 0.01 |
| སྒྲཽལ་མ | draulma | 0.01 |
| སྒྲོལ་ན། | drolna | 0.01 |
| མཆོད་རྟ | chöta | 0.01 |
| སྐྲོལ་མ། | trolma | 0.01 |
| སྒྲོལ་མ༔ | drolma | 0.01 |
| སྒྲོན། | drön | 0.01 |
| སྒྲོལ་མ་མོ། | drolmamo | 0.01 |
| སྒྲེལ་མ། | drelma | 0.01 |
| སྒྲོལམ་ | drolam | 0.01 |
| སྒྲོལ་ལ། | drolla | 0.01 |
| སྒྲོལ་མ།་ | drolma | 0.01 |
| སྒརོལ་མ་ | garolma | 0.01 |
| སྒྲོལ། | drol | 0.01 |
| Dema in the Oriya language | ||
| େଡମା | edama | 89.34 |
| େଦମା | edama | 5.74 |
| େଡମ | edama | 3.28 |
| େଡ଼ମା | erama | 0.82 |
| Dema in the Marathi language | ||
| देमा | dema | 81.64 |
| डेमा | dema | 18.28 |
| देम | dema | 0.08 |
| Dema in the Hindi language | ||
| देमा | dema | 78.42 |
| डेमा | dema | 21.58 |
| Dema in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﺩﻡ | adm | 28.57 |
| ﺍﻟﺪﻣﻪ | aldmh | 21.43 |
| ﺩﻡ | dm | 14.29 |
| ﺩﻳﻤﺎ | dyma | 7.14 |
| ﺍﻟﺪﻣﺎ | aldma | 7.14 |
| ﺩﻣﻪ | dmh | 7.14 |
| ﺍﺩﻣﻪ | admh | 7.14 |
| ﺩﺍﻡ | dam | 7.14 |
| Dema in the Russian language | ||
| Дема | dema | - |
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