Malkanna Surname

1,428,594th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 151 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
India
Highest density in:
United Arab Emirates

Malkanna Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Malkanna Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
India1451:5,290,106129,949
United Arab Emirates41:2,290,56860,372
Cameroon11:20,769,068227,406
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Malkanna (1,070) may also be a first name.

Malkanna Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Malkanna Come From? nationality or country of origin

Malkanna (Marathi: मलकांना) occurs more in India more than any other country/territory. It may be found as:. Click here for other potential spellings of Malkanna.

How Common Is The Last Name Malkanna? popularity and diffusion

The surname Malkanna is the 1,428,594th most widely held surname globally It is held by around 1 in 48,261,893 people. It occurs mostly in Asia, where 99 percent of Malkanna live; 96 percent live in South Asia and 96 percent live in Indo-South Asia. Malkanna is also the 244,495th most frequently used given name worldwide It is held by 1,070 people.

The last name Malkanna is most frequent in India, where it is held by 145 people, or 1 in 5,290,106. In India Malkanna is most common in: Telangana, where 96 percent are found and Andhra Pradesh, where 3 percent are found. Barring India this last name exists in 3 countries. It is also found in The United Arab Emirates, where 3 percent are found and Cameroon, where 1 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

Malkanna Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Malkanna in the Marathi language
मलकांनाmalakanna15.38
मलकण्णाmalakanna15.38
मलकण्malakan15.38
कांनाkanna7.69
कंनाkanna7.69
माळकरmalakara7.69
मालकांनाmalakanna7.69
मलकंनाmalakanna7.69
मालकंनाmalakanna7.69
काण्णाkanna7.69

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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 Malkanna
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