Gorai Surname
Approximately 159,745 people bear this surname
Gorai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 159,118 | 1:4,821 | 433 |
| Pakistan | 186 | 1:960,451 | 12,710 |
| Indonesia | 144 | 1:918,397 | 68,422 |
| United States | 90 | 1:4,027,321 | 218,060 |
| Papua New Guinea | 66 | 1:123,541 | 16,840 |
| Canada | 18 | 1:2,046,977 | 128,463 |
| Singapore | 13 | 1:423,669 | 18,211 |
| Cameroon | 13 | 1:1,597,621 | 87,539 |
| Iran | 12 | 1:6,398,544 | 138,820 |
| Tunisia | 9 | 1:67,847 | 8,246 |
| Qatar | 9 | 1:262,000 | 30,726 |
| South Africa | 9 | 1:6,019,745 | 157,966 |
| England | 8 | 1:6,964,757 | 184,742 |
| Kenya | 7 | 1:6,597,129 | 51,431 |
| Japan | 5 | 1:25,568,859 | 50,629 |
| Thailand | 5 | 1:14,127,669 | 603,945 |
| Australia | 4 | 1:6,748,925 | 181,100 |
| Malaysia | 4 | 1:7,373,556 | 230,001 |
| United Arab Emirates | 4 | 1:2,290,568 | 60,372 |
| Germany | 4 | 1:20,126,365 | 436,245 |
| Russia | 3 | 1:48,041,019 | 639,186 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 1:4,106,458 | 122,336 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
| Northern Ireland | 1 | 1:1,845,036 | 20,648 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
| Solomon Islands | 1 | 1:580,029 | 22,243 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1:159,356,773 | 26,077 |
Gorai (1,556) may also be a first name.
Gorai Demographics
Average Gorai Salary in
United States
$45,742 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Gorai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gorai Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Gorai (Hindi: गोरई, Marathi: गोराई, Oriya: େଗାରାଇ, Russian: Гораи) occurs more in India more than any other country/territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Gorai? popularity and diffusion
The surname Gorai is the 3,508th most numerous last name in the world It is held by around 1 in 45,620 people. The last name Gorai occurs mostly in Asia, where 100 percent of Gorai live; 100 percent live in South Asia and 100 percent live in Indo-South Asia. Gorai is also the 196,434th most frequently held first name worldwide, borne by 1,556 people.
This surname is most frequently occurring in India, where it is carried by 159,118 people, or 1 in 4,821. In India it is most prevalent in: West Bengal, where 55 percent live, Jharkhand, where 44 percent live and Odisha, where 0 percent live. Excluding India it exists in 33 countries. It also occurs in Pakistan, where 0 percent live and Indonesia, where 0 percent live.
Gorai Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States Gorai are 20.1% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than The US average, with 73.33% registered to vote for the party.
The amount Gorai earn in different countries varies markedly. In United States they earn 6.01% more than the national average, earning $45,742 USD per year and in Canada they earn 45.17% more than the national average, earning $72,126 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Gorai Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Gorai in the Oriya language | ||
| େଗାରାଇ | egara'i | 92.45 |
| ଗେରଇ | gera'i | 2.83 |
| Gorai in the Marathi language | ||
| गोराई | gora'i | 83.19 |
| गोरई | gora'i | 13.45 |
| गोरै | gorai | 1.68 |
| गोराय | goraya | 1.68 |
| Gorai in the Hindi language | ||
| गोरई | gora'i | 50 |
| गोराई | gora'i | 38.64 |
| गोराइ | gora'i | 4.55 |
| गोरइ | gora'i | 4.55 |
| गोराी | gorai | 2.27 |
| Gorai in the Russian language | ||
| Гораи | gorai | - |
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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 Gorai
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