Pakana Surname
Approximately 648 people bear this surname
Pakana Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 221 | 1:36,895 | 4,430 |
| India | 195 | 1:3,933,669 | 107,487 |
| South Africa | 114 | 1:475,243 | 39,351 |
| Indonesia | 104 | 1:1,271,627 | 88,950 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| Ivory Coast | 2 | 1:11,535,616 | 61,806 |
| Philippines | 2 | 1:50,619,112 | 341,003 |
| Thailand | 2 | 1:35,319,172 | 966,191 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Pakaña (1) are calculated separately.
Pakana (1,113) may also be a first name.
Pakana Demographics
Average Pakana Salary in
South Africa
R 98,304
Per year
Average Salary in
South Africa
R 237,638
Per year
Pakana Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Pakana Come From? nationality or country of origin
Pakana (Hindi: पकना, Marathi: पकाणा, Oriya: ପକନା) is found most frequently in Papua New Guinea. It can also be found as: Pakaña. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Pakana? popularity and diffusion
It is the 506,165th most frequently used surname throughout the world It is held by around 1 in 11,246,213 people. Pakana is primarily found in Asia, where 46 percent of Pakana reside; 35 percent reside in Oceania Islands and 35 percent reside in Papuan Oceania. Pakana is also the 239,008th most commonly held given name world-wide It is held by 1,113 people.
This last name is most commonly held in Papua New Guinea, where it is carried by 221 people, or 1 in 36,895. In Papua New Guinea it is mostly found in: Hela, where 52 percent are found, East New Britain, where 31 percent are found and Enga, where 6 percent are found. Apart from Papua New Guinea this surname exists in 11 countries. It also occurs in India, where 30 percent are found and South Africa, where 18 percent are found.
Pakana Last Name Statistics demography
Pakana earn less than half the average income. In South Africa they earn 58.63% less than the national average, earning R 98,304 per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Pakana Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Pakana in the Marathi language | ||
| पकाणा | pakana | - |
| Pakana in the Hindi language | ||
| पकना | pakana | 60 |
| पाकाना | pakana | 20 |
| पकंा | pakama | 20 |
| Pakana in the Oriya language | ||
| ପକନା | pakana | 50.52 |
| ପକଣା | pakana | 38.02 |
| ପାକନ | pakana | 5.21 |
| ପାକନା | pakana | 1.56 |
| ପକାନା | pakana | 1.56 |
| ପକଣ | pakana | 0.52 |
| ପାକଣା | pakana | 0.52 |
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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 Pakana
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