Kursas Surname
Approximately 71 people bear this surname
Kursas Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 67 | 1:790,173 | 42,439 |
| Lithuania | 2 | 1:1,517,294 | 35,813 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Kuršas (2) are calculated separately.
Kursas Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kursas Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kursas is found most frequently in Tanzania. It may also appear in the variant forms: Kuršas. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kursas? popularity and diffusion
It is the 2,255,512th most frequent family name at a global level It is held by around 1 in 102,641,492 people. The last name Kursas occurs mostly in Africa, where 94 percent of Kursas reside; 94 percent reside in East Africa and 94 percent reside in East Bantu Africa.
The last name is most common in Tanzania, where it is held by 67 people, or 1 in 790,173. In Tanzania Kursas is most common in: Arusha Region, where 97 percent reside, Kilimanjaro Region, where 1 percent reside and Manyara Region, where 1 percent reside. Aside from Tanzania this last name occurs in 3 countries. It is also found in Lithuania, where 3 percent reside and Brazil, where 1 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kuršas | 94 | 2 | / |
| Kurshais | 86 | 1 | / |
| Kurcas | 83 | 3 | / |
| Kurzas | 83 | 1 | / |
| Korsas | 83 | 1 | / |
| Kursatz | 77 | 24 | / |
| Kurchas | 77 | 2 | / |
| Khorsas | 77 | 1 | / |
| Korsias | 77 | 1 | / |
| Kurzhas | 77 | 1 | / |
| Kurzasz | 77 | 1 | / |
| Kourgias | 71 | 213 | / |
| Kurdzhas | 71 | 2 | / |
| Korsós | 67 | 1,461 | / |
| Kirsaç | 67 | 237 | / |
| Korsos | 67 | 159 | / |
| Cursaz | 67 | 54 | / |
| Curcas | 67 | 29 | / |
| Corsas | 67 | 11 | / |
| Korsòs | 67 | 5 | / |
| Kiršas | 67 | 4 | / |
| Gkourgias | 67 | 1 | / |
| Kurcaz | 67 | 1 | / |
| Curzas | 67 | 1 | / |
| Korzas | 67 | 1 | / |
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Kursas
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