Guards Surname
Approximately 335 people bear this surname
Guards Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iraq | 288 | 1:121,603 | 3,411 |
| Zimbabwe | 8 | 1:1,929,780 | 92,581 |
| Pakistan | 7 | 1:25,520,555 | 84,222 |
| India | 6 | 1:127,844,230 | 863,365 |
| Yemen | 6 | 1:4,404,216 | 18,907 |
| England | 5 | 1:11,143,612 | 252,590 |
| United States | 5 | 1:72,491,787 | 1,102,614 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 1:5,637,083 | 32,436 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 10 | 1:5,021,868 | 210,693 |
Guards (10) may also be a first name.
Guards Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Guards Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Guards (Arabic: حراس) has its highest incidence in Iraq. It can be rendered as a variant:. Click here for other possible spellings of Guards.
How Common Is The Last Name Guards? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 827,165th most commonly held family name world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 21,753,868 people. The surname Guards occurs mostly in Asia, where 93 percent of Guards live; 89 percent live in West Asia and 86 percent live in Levant. It is also the 3,684,242nd most widely held first name in the world, borne by 10 people.
The last name Guards is most frequently occurring in Iraq, where it is carried by 288 people, or 1 in 121,603. Beside Iraq this last name exists in 15 countries. It also occurs in Zimbabwe, where 2 percent reside and Pakistan, where 2 percent reside.
Guards Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Guards has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Guards last name declined 50 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Phonetically Similar Names
Guards Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Guards in the Arabic language | ||
| حراس | hras | - |
| حراسا | hrasa | - |
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Guards
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