Draw Surname

2,394,033rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 64 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Iran
Highest density in:
Sweden

Draw Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Draw Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Iran301:2,559,41782,750
Nigeria101:17,714,276277,641
Malaysia81:3,686,778134,908
Sweden51:1,969,351134,077
Afghanistan31:10,717,72835,605
India31:255,688,4611,306,352
Brazil11:214,074,3321,693,628
Canada11:36,845,591464,108
China11:1,367,321,56651,149
Liberia11:4,408,53547,110
Malawi11:17,119,10934,144
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England481:507,82027,631
Wales21:784,20816,349
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States721:697,48245,119

Draw (108) may also be a first name.

Draw Last Name Facts

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

The surname Draw (Bengali: দ্রাও, Tibetan: དགྲ་བོ།) occurs in Iran more than any other country/territory. It may occur as:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Draw? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 2,394,033rd most commonly occurring family name throughout the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 113,867,905 people. The last name occurs mostly in Asia, where 70 percent of Draw live; 56 percent live in South Asia and 52 percent live in Islamic South Asia. Draw is also the 904,892nd most frequently occurring first name globally It is held by 108 people.

The last name Draw is most common in Iran, where it is borne by 30 people, or 1 in 2,559,417. In Iran it is most prevalent in: Razavi Khorasan Province, where 97 percent live and East Azerbaijan Province, where 3 percent live. Without taking into account Iran this last name exists in 10 countries. It is also found in Nigeria, where 16 percent live and Malaysia, where 13 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Drawe89724/
Draws89297/
Drawz89232/
Dreaw891/
Drauwe808/
Drab756,498/
Drow75473/
Draf7538/
Drav7512/
Drova67288/
Drafz67259/
Dreuw67241/
Drayv67168/
Drayf67137/
Drowa6776/
Draub6751/
Drowe6750/
Dhrav6740/
Draaf6727/
Draiv6724/
Drafs6720/
Draif6718/
Draib6716/
Draab6712/
Dravs675/
Drajv675/
Dreab675/
Drabh674/
Drafe673/
Draff672/
Drauf672/
Drows671/
Drajb671/
Dhrab671/
D'Row671/
Ddrab671/
Draft671/
Dravd671/
Dravz670/

Draw Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Draw in the Bengali language
দ্রাওdra'o-
Draw in the Tibetan language
དགྲ་བོ།drawo28.95
འདྲཝ།drawa23.68
དྲཝ།drawa10.53
དགྲའུ།dra'u5.26
དགྲྭ་བོ།drawo5.26
གྲབོ་drabo2.63
དགྲའུ་dra'u2.63
འགྲའུ།dra'u2.63
དྲབོ།drabo2.63
དགྲཝ།drawa2.63
ཟླ་བ།dawa2.63
དྲ་བོ།drawo2.63
དགྲབོ།drabo2.63
དྲའུ།dra'u2.63
དྲའུ་dra'u2.63

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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
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  • 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 Draw
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