Drava Surname
Approximately 87 people bear this surname
Drava Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Latvia | 46 | 1:44,566 | 6,776 |
| Australia | 10 | 1:2,699,570 | 109,631 |
| Cameroon | 8 | 1:2,596,134 | 118,056 |
| Fiji | 4 | 1:223,598 | 2,635 |
| Italy | 3 | 1:20,385,563 | 143,117 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Benin | 2 | 1:5,167,801 | 84,334 |
| Canada | 2 | 1:18,422,796 | 409,488 |
| Denmark | 2 | 1:2,822,358 | 76,882 |
| Papua New Guinea | 2 | 1:4,076,858 | 165,791 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1 | 1:3,536,402 | 19,532 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 1:25,109,342 | 694,541 |
The alternate forms: Dráva (2) are calculated separately.
Drava (146) may also be a first name.
Drava Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Drava Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Drava (Arabic: درافا, Hindi: द्रवा, Marathi: धव) has its highest incidence in Latvia. It can occur as a variant: Dráva. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Drava? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 2,007,164th most numerous surname on earth It is held by around 1 in 83,764,896 people. The last name Drava is predominantly found in Europe, where 61 percent of Drava live; 55 percent live in Northern Europe and 53 percent live in Baltic Europe. Drava is also the 763,528th most frequent first name internationally, borne by 146 people.
The last name Drava is most frequently used in Latvia, where it is held by 46 people, or 1 in 44,566. In Latvia it is most frequent in: Vidzeme, where 65 percent live, Semigallia, where 26 percent live and Riga Planning Region, where 7 percent live. Aside from Latvia this last name occurs in 14 countries. It is also common in Australia, where 11 percent live and Cameroon, where 9 percent live.
Drava Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Drava has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Drava surname grew 150 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Phonetically Similar Names
Drava Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Drava in the Marathi language | ||
| धव | dhava | - |
| Drava in the Hindi language | ||
| द्रवा | drava | 98.15 |
| ध्रुव | dhruva | 1.85 |
| Drava in the Arabic language | ||
| درافا | drafa | - |
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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 Drava
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