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 carried by more people in Switzerland than any other country or territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Heiri? popularity and diffusion
The last name Heiri is the 1,710,039th most widely held family name on a global scale, held by approximately 1 in 63,925,841 people. This last name is predominantly found in Europe, where 79 percent of Heiri reside; 79 percent reside in Western Europe and 70 percent reside in Germanic Europe. Heiri is also the 451,716th most frequently used first name at a global level, held by 370 people.
The surname is most commonly used in Switzerland, where it is held by 89 people, or 1 in 92,280. In Switzerland Heiri is primarily concentrated in: Canton of Solothurn, where 45 percent are found, Canton of Bern, where 22 percent are found and Canton of Valais, where 9 percent are found. Barring Switzerland this surname occurs in 10 countries. It is also found in Papua New Guinea, where 7 percent are found and Iraq, where 4 percent are found.
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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