Jeera Surname
Approximately 255 people bear this surname
Jeera Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 127 | 1:6,039,885 | 141,381 |
| Pakistan | 84 | 1:2,126,713 | 19,920 |
| Uganda | 14 | 1:2,788,520 | 78,087 |
| Taiwan | 13 | 1:1,803,442 | 11,840 |
| Thailand | 12 | 1:5,886,529 | 390,733 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Jeera (9,299) may also be a first name.
Jeera Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Jeera Come From? nationality or country of origin
Jeera (Hindi: जीरा, Oriya: ଜୀରା, Tibetan: ཇི་ར་) has its highest incidence in India. It can also be found in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Jeera? popularity and diffusion
Jeera is the 1,001,271st most widely held last name worldwide, borne by around 1 in 28,578,611 people. This surname is mostly found in Asia, where 93 percent of Jeera live; 83 percent live in South Asia and 50 percent live in Indo-South Asia. It is also the 64,328th most commonly occurring first name at a global level, borne by 9,299 people.
This surname is most numerous in India, where it is borne by 127 people, or 1 in 6,039,885. In India Jeera is mostly found in: Andhra Pradesh, where 58 percent are found, Telangana, where 20 percent are found and Jharkhand, where 11 percent are found. Barring India this last name occurs in 9 countries. It is also common in Pakistan, where 33 percent are found and Uganda, where 5 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Jeera Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Jeera in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཇི་ར་ | jira | - |
| Jeera in the Hindi language | ||
| जीरा | jira | 99.32 |
| रीरा | rira | 0.68 |
| Jeera in the Oriya language | ||
| ଜୀରା | jira | 50 |
| ଜିରା | jira | 45 |
| େବେହରା | ebehara | 5 |
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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 Jeera
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