Peykani Surname

597,433rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 521 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Iran
Highest density in:
Iran

Peykani Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Peykani Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Iran5111:150,25913,186
United States31:120,819,6441,331,040
Canada21:18,422,796409,488
Sweden21:4,923,378241,212
Denmark11:5,644,71593,155
Netherlands11:16,887,176156,465
Turkey11:77,821,422191,047

Peykani (12) may also be a first name.

Peykani Last Name Facts

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

The surname Peykani is held by more people in Iran than any other country or territory. It may be rendered as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Peykani? popularity and diffusion

It is the 597,433rd most frequently used surname on earth It is held by around 1 in 13,987,612 people. The last name Peykani occurs mostly in Asia, where 98 percent of Peykani live; 98 percent live in South Asia and 98 percent live in Islamic South Asia. Peykani is also the 3,306,491st most numerous first name world-wide, borne by 12 people.

This surname is most frequently occurring in Iran, where it is borne by 511 people, or 1 in 150,259. In Iran it is primarily concentrated in: Tehran Province, where 25 percent are found, Fars Province, where 12 percent are found and Isfahan Province, where 11 percent are found. Outside of Iran it is found in 6 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 1 percent are found and Canada, where 0 percent are found.

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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 Peykani
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