Dorasami Surname

849,693rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 322 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
South Africa
Highest density in:
Mauritius

Dorasami Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Dorasami Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
South Africa1601:338,61131,451
Mauritius471:27,5205,467
United States401:9,061,473385,835
India301:25,568,846339,406
Thailand261:2,716,859279,944
Guyana161:47,6394,360
England11:55,718,059489,080
Malaysia11:29,494,225409,885
Qatar11:2,357,99976,403

Dorasami (203) may also be a first name.

Dorasami Last Name Facts

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

The last name Dorasami (Marathi: दोरसमी) is found most in South Africa. It can also appear as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Dorasami? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 849,693rd most commonly held surname on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 22,632,130 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 64 percent of Dorasami are found; 64 percent are found in Southern Africa and 50 percent are found in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 635,584th most commonly used given name at a global level, borne by 203 people.

This last name is most commonly held in South Africa, where it is carried by 160 people, or 1 in 338,611. In South Africa it is most numerous in: KwaZulu-Natal, where 89 percent reside, Gauteng, where 11 percent reside and Western Cape, where 1 percent reside. Barring South Africa it occurs in 8 countries. It also occurs in Mauritius, where 15 percent reside and The United States, where 12 percent reside.

Dorasami Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those bearing the Dorasami surname are 53.23% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 100% registered to vote for the party.

The amount Dorasami earn in different countries varies significantly. In South Africa they earn 10.16% more than the national average, earning R 261,780 per year and in United States they earn 40.7% more than the national average, earning $60,712 USD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

Dorasami Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Dorasami in the Marathi language
दोरसमीdorasami-

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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 Dorasami
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