Dervish Surname
Approximately 5,930 people bear this surname
Dervish Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iran | 4,465 | 1:17,197 | 2,223 |
| England | 781 | 1:71,342 | 8,173 |
| Bulgaria | 287 | 1:24,317 | 2,063 |
| Russia | 90 | 1:1,601,367 | 107,342 |
| United States | 64 | 1:5,663,421 | 279,165 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 51 | 1:117,111 | 13,579 |
| Australia | 39 | 1:692,197 | 46,687 |
| Albania | 28 | 1:104,073 | 9,868 |
| Greece | 16 | 1:692,487 | 77,522 |
| Turkey | 15 | 1:5,188,095 | 110,069 |
| Sweden | 14 | 1:703,340 | 52,204 |
| Canada | 14 | 1:2,631,828 | 153,264 |
| Belgium | 13 | 1:884,357 | 69,774 |
| Belarus | 6 | 1:1,583,510 | 89,472 |
| Azerbaijan | 5 | 1:1,929,824 | 23,635 |
| Scotland | 4 | 1:1,338,454 | 35,497 |
| Pakistan | 4 | 1:44,660,971 | 115,884 |
| India | 4 | 1:191,766,346 | 1,073,940 |
| Wales | 3 | 1:1,031,511 | 34,732 |
| Northern Cyprus | 2 | 1:159,506 | 9,062 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2 | 1:1,768,201 | 16,841 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 1:8,443,588 | 136,641 |
| Kazakhstan | 2 | 1:8,841,248 | 174,813 |
| Israel | 2 | 1:4,278,817 | 136,311 |
| Guam | 1 | 1:160,121 | 4,893 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Uzbekistan | 1 | 1:30,929,142 | 67,786 |
| Armenia | 1 | 1:2,930,180 | 22,770 |
| Turkmenistan | 1 | 1:5,489,112 | 11,427 |
| Afghanistan | 1 | 1:32,153,183 | 60,828 |
| Syria | 1 | 1:19,301,022 | 22,457 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Slovakia | 1 | 1:5,336,450 | 140,422 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
Dervish (1,451) may also be a first name.
Dervish Demographics
Average Dervish Salary in
United States
$68,750 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Dervish Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Dervish Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Dervish (Hindi: देर्वीष, Russian: Дервиш) is more commonly found in Iran than any other country or territory. It may occur as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Dervish? popularity and diffusion
Dervish is the 81,829th most commonly held surname at a global level It is held by around 1 in 1,228,928 people. It is mostly found in Asia, where 77 percent of Dervish reside; 75 percent reside in South Asia and 75 percent reside in Islamic South Asia. It is also the 204,770th most commonly held first name throughout the world, held by 1,451 people.
It is most commonly occurring in Iran, where it is held by 4,465 people, or 1 in 17,197. In Iran it is primarily found in: Tehran Province, where 16 percent reside, Mazandaran Province, where 12 percent reside and Razavi Khorasan Province, where 8 percent reside. Outside of Iran Dervish exists in 40 countries. It is also common in England, where 13 percent reside and Bulgaria, where 5 percent reside.
Dervish Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those bearing the last name is principally Orthodox (80%) in Ukraine.
In The United States those holding the Dervish last name are 2.33% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than the national average, with 55.56% being registered with the political party.
The amount Dervish earn in different countries varies somewhat. In United States they earn 59.33% more than the national average, earning $68,750 USD per year and in Canada they earn 47.98% more than the national average, earning $73,522 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Dervish Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Dervish in the Hindi language | ||
| देर्वीष | dervisa | - |
| Dervish in the Russian language | ||
| Дервиш | dervis | - |
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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 Dervish
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