Dr Surname

24,133rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 22,418 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Sudan
Highest density in:
Sudan

Dr Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Dr Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Sudan10,6401:3,525504
Indonesia7,7571:17,0492,101
Yemen1,3051:20,2492,133
India1,1801:650,05530,692
Saudi Arabia7161:43,0956,100
Nigeria2981:594,43928,543
Iraq2151:162,8914,104
Iran741:1,037,60247,336
Brazil581:3,690,937102,732
Taiwan541:434,1623,316
Canada261:1,417,13898,245
Niger181:1,066,22323,213
Qatar161:147,37516,023
Slovakia151:355,76348,124
Malaysia141:2,106,73083,604
Croatia121:352,38432,084
United Arab Emirates111:832,93427,512
Israel31:2,852,545113,505
Kenya21:23,089,95083,168
China21:683,660,78330,601
Dominican Republic11:10,432,93236,508
Syria11:19,301,02222,457

Dr (45,944) may also be a first name.

Dr Last Name Facts

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

The last name Dr (Hindi: दा, Russian: Др, Tibetan: བཀྲིས་) occurs most in Sudan. It can occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Dr? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 24,133rd most frequent family name at a global level It is held by approximately 1 in 325,076 people. It is predominantly found in Asia, where 51 percent of Dr are found; 47 percent are found in North Africa and 47 percent are found in Arabic North Africa. It is also the 19,836th most commonly held first name at a global level, held by 45,944 people.

The surname is most commonly used in Sudan, where it is carried by 10,640 people, or 1 in 3,525. Not including Sudan this last name exists in 21 countries. It is also common in Indonesia, where 35 percent are found and Yemen, where 6 percent are found.

Dr Last Name Statistics demography

Dr earn somewhat less than the average income. In Canada they earn 7.57% less than the national average, earning $45,922 CAD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Drh80302/
Dhr80207/
Drt80135/
Tdr8041/
Drd8026/
Drp8020/
Hdr8014/
Drz805/
Ddr804/
Drì801/
Dẳr801/
Dőr801/
Dørr67123/
Dhrd67122/
Døhr6720/
Dőrr676/
Dhrh675/
Døør674/
Ddrh672/
Dhrp672/
Drdt672/
Drjz671/
Dûrr671/
Dhår671/
Tddr671/
Tdhr671/
Tdrr671/
Drhh671/
Drpf671/
Drtt671/
Hdrh671/
Hdrd671/
Dhrz671/
Dhrr671/
Dhhr671/
Ddrz671/

Dr Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Dr in the Hindi language
दाda88.17
डाda11.83
Dr in the Tibetan language
བཀྲིས་tashi22.22
ཌོག་ཊར་doktar22.22
ཌོག་ཊར་བསམ་གྲུབ་doktarsamdrub11.11
བསོད་ནམས་sönam11.11
ཌོག་ཊར་ཕུརཔ་doktarpurpa11.11
དྲུང་འཚོ་ལུང་བསྟན་drungtsolungten11.11
ཌོག་ཊཪ་བཀྲིས་doktaratashi11.11
Dr in the Russian language
Дрdr-

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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 Dr
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