Nishana Surname
Approximately 261 people bear this surname
Nishana Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maldives | 129 | 1:3,133 | 313 |
| India | 125 | 1:6,136,523 | 142,720 |
| South Africa | 4 | 1:13,544,426 | 222,367 |
| Azerbaijan | 1 | 1:9,649,122 | 47,873 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
Nishana (2,390) may also be a first name.
Nishana Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nishana Come From? nationality or country of origin
Nishana (Bengali: নিশানা, Georgian: ნიშანა, Hindi: निशाना) is found most in The Maldives. It can appear as:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Nishana? popularity and diffusion
The surname Nishana is the 985,740th most commonly used last name at a global level, held by approximately 1 in 27,921,632 people. It is predominantly found in Asia, where 98 percent of Nishana reside; 98 percent reside in South Asia and 50 percent reside in Islamic South Asia. It is also the 151,848th most widely held forename in the world It is held by 2,390 people.
The last name is most frequent in The Maldives, where it is borne by 129 people, or 1 in 3,133. In The Maldives Nishana is mostly found in: Malé, where 34 percent live, Kaafu Atoll, where 13 percent live and Seenu Atoll, where 9 percent live. Excluding The Maldives it exists in 5 countries. It is also found in India, where 48 percent live and South Africa, where 2 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Nishana Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Nishana in the Georgian language | ||
| ნიშანა | nishana | - |
| Nishana in the Bengali language | ||
| নিশানা | nisana | 90.91 |
| ণিশানা | nisana | 9.09 |
| Nishana in the Hindi language | ||
| निशाना | nisana | 79.41 |
| निशँा | nisama | 14.71 |
| निशंा | nisama | 2.94 |
| नीशाना | nisana | 2.94 |
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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 Nishana
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