Kanjur Surname

2,746,821st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 50 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
India
Highest density in:
Bhutan

Kanjur Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Kanjur Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
India431:17,838,730274,051
Indonesia41:33,062,298643,618
Bhutan11:616,0391,715
Germany11:80,505,459560,955
Ghana11:27,020,69223,742

Kanjur (170) may also be a first name.

Kanjur Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Kanjur Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Kanjur (Hindi: कन्जूर, Marathi: कांजूर, Tibetan: བཀའ་འགྱུར་) occurs in India more than any other country/territory. It may also be found in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Kanjur? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 2,746,821st most widely held family name at a global level, held by approximately 1 in 145,750,918 people. It is predominantly found in Asia, where 96 percent of Kanjur reside; 88 percent reside in South Asia and 86 percent reside in Indo-South Asia. It is also the 701,320th most numerous first name on earth It is held by 170 people.

The last name Kanjur is most commonly used in India, where it is borne by 43 people, or 1 in 17,838,730. In India it is primarily concentrated in: Maharashtra, where 56 percent live, Bihar, where 19 percent live and Kerala, where 16 percent live. Without taking into account India it is found in 4 countries. It is also common in Indonesia, where 8 percent live and Bhutan, where 2 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Khanjur923/
Kanjure922/
Khanjour8619/
Khanjure8610/
Kandjour869/
Khanjurh861/
Kanjor83297/
Kancur8396/
Kenjur8321/
Kansur8315/
Kanyur8310/
Canjur836/
Kaniur834/
Kanzur831/
Khanijour8012/
Khanijaur801/
Khansur771,001/
Kanyurt7746/
Kansour7745/
Kanjoor7744/
Kanchur7721/
Kanyour779/
Kansure779/
Kuinjur775/
Kamjuur774/
Kagnour774/
Kounjur773/
Kanszur772/
Khanzur771/
Khanyur771/
Khanjor771/
Kanjoer771/
Kainhur771/
Kagnure771/
Kandžur771/
Kanschur7111/
Khanijor716/
Kanssour714/
Kanchure712/
Kanjhoor711/
Kandziur711/
Konsur67290/
Koncur67278/
Kansor6758/
Cancur6732/
Kognur6719/
Konhur6710/
Konjor6710/
Koniur674/
Kahanyure674/
Kanzurova674/
Khanchour673/
Konzur672/
Canzur671/
Khanshour671/
Kamzur671/
Kanzor671/
Kondjoure671/
Canjor671/
Cansur670/

Kanjur Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Kanjur in the Hindi language
कन्जूरkanjura-
Kanjur in the Marathi language
कांजूरkanjura66.67
कांजुरkanjura19.05
कंजूरkanjura14.29
Kanjur in the Tibetan language
བཀའ་འགྱུར་kagyur63.04
བཀའ་འགྱུར།kagyur13.04
དཀའ་འགྱུར་kagyur6.52
བཀའ་རྒྱུར་kagyur3.26
བཀའ་འརྒྱུར་kaagyur2.17
ཀན་འབྱུར།kenjur1.09
དཀའ་འགྱུར།kagyur1.09
ཀན་འགྱུར།kengyur1.09
བཀའ་གྱུར།kagyur1.09
ཀན་འགྱུར་kengyur1.09
བཀའ་གྱུར་kagyur1.09
དཀའ་གྱུར་kagyur1.09
བཀའ་འབྱུར་kajur1.09
དཀའ་སྒྱུར།kagyur1.09
དཀན་འབྱུར་kenjur1.09
དཀའ་འབྱུར་kajur1.09

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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
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  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Kanjur
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