Kavasi Surname
Approximately 10,217 people bear this surname
Kavasi Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iran | 10,080 | 1:7,617 | 1,063 |
| Greece | 66 | 1:167,876 | 27,244 |
| India | 51 | 1:15,040,498 | 247,985 |
| Romania | 9 | 1:2,230,874 | 54,437 |
| Papua New Guinea | 6 | 1:1,358,953 | 118,663 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
The alternate forms: Kávási (97) are calculated separately.
Kavasi (611) may also be a first name.
Kavasi Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kavasi Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kavasi (Hindi: कवसी, Marathi: कवसी) is found most frequently in Iran. It may appear as a variant: Kávási. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kavasi? popularity and diffusion
The last name Kavasi is the 50,250th most frequent surname worldwide, borne by around 1 in 713,276 people. This last name is primarily found in Asia, where 99 percent of Kavasi reside; 99 percent reside in South Asia and 99 percent reside in Islamic South Asia. It is also the 337,969th most widely held first name internationally, borne by 611 people.
This surname is most commonly used in Iran, where it is carried by 10,080 people, or 1 in 7,617. In Iran Kavasi is mostly concentrated in: Tehran Province, where 17 percent reside, Fars Province, where 9 percent reside and Khuzestan Province, where 7 percent reside. Beside Iran this last name occurs in 7 countries. It also occurs in Greece, where 1 percent reside and India, where 0 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kavasi Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kavasi in the Marathi language | ||
| कवसी | kavasi | 63.64 |
| कावासी | kavasi | 18.18 |
| केावसी | keavasi | 9.09 |
| कवासी | kavasi | 9.09 |
| Kavasi in the Hindi language | ||
| कवसी | kavasi | 50 |
| कवासी | kavasi | 50 |
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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 Kavasi
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