Kandhar Surname
Approximately 786 people bear this surname
Kandhar Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pakistan | 585 | 1:305,374 | 6,373 |
| India | 196 | 1:3,913,599 | 107,087 |
| Afghanistan | 4 | 1:8,038,296 | 30,874 |
| Yemen | 1 | 1:26,425,294 | 55,147 |
Kandhar (222) may also be a first name.
Kandhar Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kandhar Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kandhar (Hindi: कन्धर, Marathi: कंधार) is found most in Pakistan. It may also be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kandhar? popularity and diffusion
Kandhar is the 436,668th most frequently used family name world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 9,271,687 people. The last name is mostly found in Asia, where 100 percent of Kandhar reside; 100 percent reside in South Asia and 75 percent reside in Islamic South Asia. It is also the 605,116th most frequently held forename throughout the world It is held by 222 people.
The last name is most commonly occurring in Pakistan, where it is borne by 585 people, or 1 in 305,374. In Pakistan it is mostly concentrated in: Sindh, where 99 percent are found, Punjab, where 1 percent are found and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where 0 percent are found. Not including Pakistan it is found in 3 countries. It is also common in India, where 25 percent are found and Afghanistan, where 1 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kandhar Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kandhar in the Hindi language | ||
| कन्धर | kandhara | 60.87 |
| कंधर | kandhara | 17.39 |
| कन्धार | kandhara | 13.04 |
| कंधार | kandhara | 4.35 |
| कान्धर | kandhara | 4.35 |
| Kandhar in the Marathi language | ||
| कंधार | kandhara | 44.19 |
| कांधार | kandhara | 18.6 |
| खंधार | khandhara | 13.95 |
| कांढर | kandhara | 9.3 |
| कंधारे | kandhare | 9.3 |
| कंधारी | kandhari | 4.65 |
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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 Kandhar
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