Lacha Surname
Approximately 1,579 people bear this surname
Lacha Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 883 | 1:59,957 | 6,439 |
| India | 372 | 1:2,062,004 | 70,087 |
| Spain | 66 | 1:708,364 | 30,810 |
| Philippines | 59 | 1:1,715,902 | 111,316 |
| Mauritius | 33 | 1:39,194 | 7,252 |
| Argentina | 26 | 1:1,643,977 | 88,124 |
| Papua New Guinea | 25 | 1:326,149 | 43,617 |
| Nigeria | 23 | 1:7,701,859 | 170,290 |
| Greece | 15 | 1:738,653 | 80,079 |
| Zimbabwe | 10 | 1:1,543,824 | 78,460 |
| Malawi | 9 | 1:1,902,123 | 19,532 |
| Thailand | 7 | 1:10,091,192 | 512,203 |
| Malaysia | 6 | 1:4,915,704 | 170,578 |
| Uganda | 4 | 1:9,759,820 | 144,676 |
| Germany | 3 | 1:26,835,153 | 452,368 |
| Slovakia | 3 | 1:1,778,817 | 104,392 |
| Pakistan | 3 | 1:59,547,962 | 132,569 |
| Austria | 3 | 1:2,838,478 | 93,604 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| Poland | 2 | 1:19,004,374 | 199,659 |
| Georgia | 2 | 1:1,872,772 | 35,618 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Czechia | 2 | 1:5,316,734 | 169,646 |
| Canada | 2 | 1:18,422,796 | 409,488 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Turkmenistan | 1 | 1:5,489,112 | 11,427 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Maldives | 1 | 1:404,172 | 7,269 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 9 | 1:5,579,854 | 232,921 |
The alternate forms: Lácha (140) & Lächa (5) are calculated separately.
Lacha (2,265) may also be a first name.
Lacha Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Lacha Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Lacha (Bengali: লাচা, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻻﺷﻪ, Hindi: लछा, Marathi: लचा, Oriya: ଲାଚା, Russian: Лача, Tibetan: ལྷ་ལྕ་) occurs most in Tanzania. It can also be found in the variant forms: Lácha or Lächa. Click here for other potential spellings of Lacha.
How Common Is The Last Name Lacha? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 251,029th most frequently held last name worldwide It is held by around 1 in 4,615,292 people. The surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 61 percent of Lacha are found; 56 percent are found in East Africa and 56 percent are found in East Bantu Africa. It is also the 156,825th most numerous first name in the world It is held by 2,265 people.
The last name is most frequently occurring in Tanzania, where it is borne by 883 people, or 1 in 59,957. In Tanzania it is mostly found in: Dodoma Region, where 75 percent live, Manyara Region, where 14 percent live and Dar es Salaam Region, where 9 percent live. Without taking into account Tanzania this surname occurs in 38 countries. It is also found in India, where 24 percent live and Spain, where 4 percent live.
Lacha Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Lacha has changed over time. In The United States the number of people bearing the Lacha last name decreased 78 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Phonetically Similar Names
Lacha Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Lacha in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻻﺷﻪ | lashh | - |
| Lacha in the Bengali language | ||
| লাচা | laca | - |
| Lacha in the Marathi language | ||
| लचा | laca | 76 |
| लाचा | laca | 21.33 |
| लाछा | lacha | 1.33 |
| Lacha in the Oriya language | ||
| ଲାଚା | laca | 53.9 |
| ଲଚ | laca | 24.82 |
| ଲାଚ | laca | 7.8 |
| ଲଚା | laca | 5.67 |
| ଲାଛା | lacha | 3.55 |
| ଲଛ | lacha | 1.42 |
| ଲାଛ | lacha | 0.71 |
| ଲାୟ | laya | 0.71 |
| ଲାଛୁ | lachu | 0.71 |
| Lacha in the Hindi language | ||
| लछा | lacha | 35.04 |
| लाचा | laca | 30.66 |
| लाछा | lacha | 28.47 |
| लचा | laca | 2.92 |
| लछाा | lachaa | 2.19 |
| लच्चा | lacca | 0.73 |
| Lacha in the Tibetan language | ||
| ལྷ་ལྕ་ | lhacha | 33.33 |
| ལྷ་མཆོག་ | lhachok | 33.33 |
| ལྷ་ཀྱ་ | lhakya | 33.33 |
| Lacha in the Russian language | ||
| Лача | laca | - |
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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 Lacha
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