Malalai Surname
Approximately 1,199 people bear this surname
Malalai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iran | 577 | 1:133,072 | 12,106 |
| Thailand | 432 | 1:163,515 | 26,170 |
| Afghanistan | 183 | 1:175,700 | 3,503 |
| Australia | 2 | 1:13,497,850 | 222,987 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Malalai (43,558) may also be a first name.
Malalai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Malalai Come From? nationality or country of origin
Malalai (Marathi: मालालाई) is found most frequently in Iran. It may also occur as:. Click here for further possible spellings of Malalai.
How Common Is The Last Name Malalai? popularity and diffusion
It is the 313,426th most commonly used surname internationally. It is borne by around 1 in 6,078,020 people. The surname Malalai occurs mostly in Asia, where 100 percent of Malalai live; 63 percent live in South Asia and 63 percent live in Islamic South Asia. It is also the 20,719th most frequent first name world-wide, borne by 43,558 people.
This surname is most widely held in Iran, where it is held by 577 people, or 1 in 133,072. In Iran Malalai is primarily concentrated in: Gilan Province, where 15 percent are found, Isfahan Province, where 15 percent are found and Tehran Province, where 13 percent are found. Other than Iran it occurs in 8 countries. It also occurs in Thailand, where 36 percent are found and Afghanistan, where 15 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Malalai Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Malalai in the Marathi language | ||
| मालालाई | malala'i | 33.33 |
| मललाई | malala'i | 33.33 |
| मललइ | malala'i | 33.33 |
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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 Malalai
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