Heruka Surname
Approximately 11 people bear this surname
Heruka Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 9 | 1:5,882,401 | 60,754 |
| Bhutan | 1 | 1:616,039 | 1,715 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Heruka Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Heruka Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Heruka (Tibetan: ཧེ་རུ་ཀ་) is held by more people in Tanzania than any other country or territory. It can also occur as:. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Heruka? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 5,812,366th most prevalent family name internationally. It is borne by around 1 in 662,504,174 people. The surname is primarily found in Africa, where 82 percent of Heruka live; 82 percent live in East Africa and 82 percent live in East Bantu Africa.
The last name Heruka is most frequent in Tanzania, where it is carried by 9 people, or 1 in 5,882,401. In Tanzania Heruka is primarily found in: Kigoma Region, where 100 percent are found. Excluding Tanzania Heruka occurs in 2 countries. It is also common in Bhutan, where 9 percent are found and The United States, where 9 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Heruka Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Heruka in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཧེ་རུ་ཀ་ | heruka | 25 |
| ཡེ་རུ་ཀ། | yéruka | 25 |
| ཧེ་རོ་ཀ། | héroka | 25 |
| ཧེ་རུ་ཀ། | heruka | 25 |
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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 Heruka
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