Heiri Surname
Approximately 114 people bear this surname
Heiri Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | 89 | 1:92,280 | 10,121 |
| Papua New Guinea | 8 | 1:1,019,215 | 101,897 |
| Iraq | 4 | 1:8,755,414 | 23,373 |
| China | 3 | 1:455,773,855 | 21,925 |
| Malaysia | 3 | 1:9,831,408 | 269,765 |
| Algeria | 2 | 1:19,315,776 | 97,017 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 1:9,162,273 | 135,437 |
| Yemen | 1 | 1:26,425,294 | 55,147 |
Heiri (370) may also be a first name.
Heiri Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Heiri Come From? nationality or country of origin
Heiri (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻫﻴﺮﻱ) is found most in Switzerland. It can also be rendered as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of Heiri.
How Common Is The Last Name Heiri? popularity and diffusion
The surname Heiri is the 1,710,039th most commonly occurring surname at a global level. It is borne by approximately 1 in 63,925,841 people. The last name is predominantly found in Europe, where 79 percent of Heiri are found; 79 percent are found in Western Europe and 70 percent are found in Germanic Europe. It is also the 451,716th most commonly held first name throughout the world It is held by 370 people.
The last name is most frequently used in Switzerland, where it is borne by 89 people, or 1 in 92,280. In Switzerland Heiri is mostly concentrated in: Canton of Solothurn, where 45 percent live, Canton of Bern, where 22 percent live and Canton of Valais, where 9 percent live. Excluding Switzerland this surname is found in 10 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 7 percent live and Iraq, where 4 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Heiri Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Heiri in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻫﻴﺮﻱ | hyry | - |
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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 Heiri
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