Palekh Surname
Approximately 44 people bear this surname
Palekh Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Russia | 38 | 1:3,792,712 | 188,390 |
| Belarus | 2 | 1:4,750,530 | 139,516 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| Ukraine | 2 | 1:22,761,348 | 425,733 |
Palekh Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Palekh Come From? nationality or country of origin
Palekh (Marathi: पालेख, Russian: Палех) is carried by more people in Russia than any other country or territory. It may also be found in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Palekh? popularity and diffusion
The surname Palekh is the 2,944,094th most frequently used family name world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 165,626,044 people. This surname is predominantly found in Europe, where 91 percent of Palekh live; 91 percent live in Eastern Europe and 91 percent live in East Slavic Europe.
This last name is most widely held in Russia, where it is carried by 38 people, or 1 in 3,792,712. In Russia Palekh is most common in: Ivanovo Oblast, where 74 percent live, Saint Petersburg, where 8 percent live and Kemerovo Oblast, where 3 percent live. Besides Russia Palekh occurs in 3 countries. It is also found in Belarus, where 5 percent live and India, where 5 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Palekh Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Palekh in the Marathi language | ||
| पालेख | palekha | - |
| Palekh in the Russian language | ||
| Палех | paleh | - |
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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 Palekh
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