Kangra Surname
Approximately 263 people bear this surname
Kangra Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 246 | 1:3,118,152 | 92,229 |
| Pakistan | 6 | 1:29,773,981 | 92,487 |
| United Arab Emirates | 4 | 1:2,290,568 | 60,372 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Isle of Man | 1 | 1:85,822 | 4,091 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Serbia | 1 | 1:7,144,948 | 38,459 |
Kangra (31) may also be a first name.
Kangra Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kangra Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kangra (Hindi: कांगडा, Marathi: कागरा, Tibetan: རྐང་ར།) has its highest incidence in India. It may also appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Kangra click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kangra? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 980,795th most frequent last name on a worldwide basis, borne by around 1 in 27,709,300 people. The surname Kangra occurs predominantly in Asia, where 97 percent of Kangra live; 96 percent live in South Asia and 94 percent live in Indo-South Asia. It is also the 1,874,099th most commonly held first name in the world It is held by 31 people.
The last name Kangra is most frequently occurring in India, where it is held by 246 people, or 1 in 3,118,152. In India it is mostly concentrated in: Delhi, where 39 percent are found, Punjab, where 30 percent are found and Uttarkhand, where 5 percent are found. Excluding India it is found in 8 countries. It is also found in Pakistan, where 2 percent are found and The United Arab Emirates, where 2 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kangra Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kangra in the Tibetan language | ||
| རྐང་ར། | kangra | - |
| Kangra in the Marathi language | ||
| कागरा | kagara | - |
| Kangra in the Hindi language | ||
| कांगडा | kangada | 62.5 |
| कांगरा | kangara | 12.5 |
| कांगडा़ | kangada | 12.5 |
| कागडा | kagada | 12.5 |
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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
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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 Kangra
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