Furukawa Surname
Approximately 192,637 people bear this surname
Furukawa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japan | 188,825 | 1:677 | 108 |
| United States | 1,548 | 1:234,147 | 22,512 |
| Brazil | 1,176 | 1:182,036 | 7,029 |
| Thailand | 442 | 1:159,815 | 25,560 |
| Canada | 150 | 1:245,637 | 23,369 |
| Mexico | 73 | 1:1,700,359 | 17,324 |
| Hong Kong | 70 | 1:104,793 | 1,905 |
| Singapore | 60 | 1:91,795 | 3,674 |
| Philippines | 47 | 1:2,154,005 | 122,929 |
| Peru | 37 | 1:859,030 | 17,841 |
| England | 24 | 1:2,321,586 | 86,519 |
| Paraguay | 21 | 1:344,607 | 5,239 |
| Germany | 20 | 1:4,025,273 | 167,743 |
| Argentina | 18 | 1:2,374,634 | 110,716 |
| China | 15 | 1:91,154,771 | 4,767 |
| Malaysia | 12 | 1:2,457,852 | 95,442 |
| Guam | 12 | 1:13,343 | 2,098 |
| Qatar | 9 | 1:262,000 | 30,726 |
| Australia | 8 | 1:3,374,463 | 124,818 |
| Norway | 8 | 1:642,786 | 47,258 |
| Chile | 8 | 1:2,202,059 | 30,910 |
| Russia | 7 | 1:20,589,008 | 462,339 |
| Indonesia | 6 | 1:22,041,532 | 555,748 |
| Kazakhstan | 6 | 1:2,947,083 | 107,736 |
| Sweden | 5 | 1:1,969,351 | 134,077 |
| France | 4 | 1:16,605,680 | 368,153 |
| Taiwan | 2 | 1:11,722,373 | 63,559 |
| Colombia | 2 | 1:23,887,036 | 32,612 |
| South Korea | 2 | 1:25,620,128 | 4,175 |
| Ecuador | 2 | 1:7,952,923 | 34,269 |
| Italy | 2 | 1:30,578,344 | 160,757 |
| Vietnam | 1 | 1:92,646,054 | 8,382 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Burundi | 1 | 1:9,804,852 | 2,349 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Costa Rica | 1 | 1:4,780,069 | 13,345 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Latvia | 1 | 1:2,050,046 | 60,295 |
Furukawa (18) may also be a first name.
Furukawa Demographics
Average Male Furukawa Height
170.62 cm
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Furukawa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Furukawa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Furukawa occurs more in Japan more than any other country/territory. It may also be found as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of Furukawa.
How Common Is The Last Name Furukawa? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 2,920th most commonly occurring surname on a worldwide basis. It is borne by approximately 1 in 37,830 people. The last name Furukawa is primarily found in Asia, where 98 percent of Furukawa live; 98 percent live in East Asia and 98 percent live in Nippono-Asia. Furukawa is also the 2,608,198th most frequently occurring first name worldwide, borne by 18 people.
The surname Furukawa is most frequent in Japan, where it is held by 188,825 people, or 1 in 677. In Japan Furukawa is primarily found in: Tokyo Metropolis, where 10 percent are found, Osaka Prefecture, where 7 percent are found and Chiba Prefecture, where 7 percent are found. Besides Japan this last name occurs in 46 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 1 percent are found and Brazil, where 1 percent are found.
Furukawa Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Furukawa surname are 20.39% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 73.62% registered with the political party.
The amount Furukawa earn in different countries varies greatly. In Peru they earn 461.75% more than the national average, earning S/. 108,896 per year; in United States they earn 22.22% more than the national average, earning $52,735 USD per year and in Canada they earn 14.09% more than the national average, earning $56,683 CAD per year.
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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 Furukawa
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