Payand Surname
Approximately 1,871 people bear this surname
Payand Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afghanistan | 1,164 | 1:27,623 | 1,237 |
| Iran | 705 | 1:108,911 | 10,450 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Payand (229) may also be a first name.
Payand Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Payand Come From? nationality or country of origin
Payand is carried by more people in Afghanistan than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Payand? popularity and diffusion
It is the 218,820th most commonly held last name at a global level. It is borne by around 1 in 3,895,000 people. This surname occurs mostly in Asia, where 100 percent of Payand live; 100 percent live in South Asia and 100 percent live in Islamic South Asia. It is also the 593,349th most widely held first name globally, held by 229 people.
The surname is most commonly used in Afghanistan, where it is held by 1,164 people, or 1 in 27,623. In Afghanistan it is mostly concentrated in: Kandahar, where 23 percent reside, Helmand, where 17 percent reside and Farah, where 14 percent reside. Other than Afghanistan this last name exists in 3 countries. It is also found in Iran, where 38 percent reside and Spain, where 0 percent reside.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Payand
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