Kolya Surname
Approximately 3,323 people bear this surname
Kolya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 2,516 | 1:304,875 | 17,118 |
| Mongolia | 387 | 1:7,300 | 1,137 |
| Uganda | 243 | 1:160,655 | 13,924 |
| Papua New Guinea | 33 | 1:247,082 | 33,879 |
| Brazil | 33 | 1:6,487,101 | 155,169 |
| Israel | 20 | 1:427,882 | 33,464 |
| United States | 19 | 1:19,076,786 | 604,894 |
| Russia | 16 | 1:9,007,691 | 311,782 |
| Romania | 12 | 1:1,673,156 | 53,791 |
| Australia | 10 | 1:2,699,570 | 109,631 |
| United Arab Emirates | 4 | 1:2,290,568 | 60,372 |
| Kenya | 4 | 1:11,544,975 | 62,419 |
| Canada | 3 | 1:12,281,864 | 364,614 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| Ivory Coast | 3 | 1:7,690,411 | 57,263 |
| Japan | 3 | 1:42,614,764 | 59,022 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Uzbekistan | 1 | 1:30,929,142 | 67,786 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Slovakia | 1 | 1:5,336,450 | 140,422 |
| Yemen | 1 | 1:26,425,294 | 55,147 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 1 | 1:5,972,654 | 99,197 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Cambodia | 1 | 1:15,487,146 | 14,824 |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 1:6,978,905 | 86,260 |
| Armenia | 1 | 1:2,930,180 | 22,770 |
The alternate forms: Kólya (133) are calculated separately.
Kolya (2,897) may also be a first name.
Kolya Demographics
Kolya Religious Adherence
in Russia
Religious Adherence
in Russia
Kolya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kolya Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kolya (Arabic: كوليا, Hindi: कोल्या, Marathi: कोलया) is more frequently found in India than any other country or territory. It can also appear in the variant forms: Kólya. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Kolya? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 135,297th most frequently held last name at a global level, held by around 1 in 2,193,062 people. The surname is mostly found in Asia, where 88 percent of Kolya reside; 76 percent reside in South Asia and 76 percent reside in Indo-South Asia. It is also the 134,988th most widespread forename world-wide. It is borne by 2,897 people.
The last name Kolya is most frequent in India, where it is carried by 2,516 people, or 1 in 304,875. In India Kolya is most frequent in: West Bengal, where 85 percent live, Madhya Pradesh, where 12 percent live and Maharashtra, where 1 percent live. Other than India Kolya exists in 29 countries. It is also common in Mongolia, where 12 percent live and Uganda, where 7 percent live.
Kolya Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those bearing the Kolya surname is primarily Orthodox (84%) in Russia.
Kolya earn less than half the average income. In United States they earn 65.58% less than the national average, earning $14,850 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kolya Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kolya in the Marathi language | ||
| कोलया | kolaya | - |
| Kolya in the Hindi language | ||
| कोल्या | kolya | 97.52 |
| कोलया | kolaya | 2.48 |
| Kolya in the Arabic language | ||
| كوليا | kwlya | - |
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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 Kolya
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