Phurba Surname

1,415,499th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 153 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Bhutan
Highest density in:
Bhutan

Phurba Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Phurba Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Bhutan1431:4,308249
United States61:60,409,8221,028,827
Malaysia21:14,747,112316,340
India11:767,065,3821,851,717
Thailand11:70,638,3451,175,915

Phurba (8,325) may also be a first name.

Phurba Last Name Facts

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

The surname Phurba (Hindi: पुर्बा, Marathi: फुब, Oriya: ଫୁବର୍ା, Tibetan: ཕུར་པ་) occurs in Bhutan more than any other country/territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Phurba.

How Common Is The Last Name Phurba? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 1,415,499th most common family name globally. It is borne by around 1 in 47,631,019 people. The last name Phurba occurs mostly in Asia, where 96 percent of Phurba are found; 94 percent are found in South Asia and 93 percent are found in Tibeto-South Asia. It is also the 69,248th most commonly used forename on earth. It is borne by 8,325 people.

The last name is most commonly held in Bhutan, where it is carried by 143 people, or 1 in 4,308. In Bhutan Phurba is mostly found in: Thimphu District, where 43 percent live, Bumthang District, where 23 percent live and Paro District, where 10 percent live. Not including Bhutan Phurba exists in 4 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 4 percent live and Malaysia, where 1 percent live.

Phurba Last Name Statistics demography

Phurba earn a lot more than the average income. In United States they earn 37.82% more than the national average, earning $59,469 USD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Purba91188,161/
Purbay83131/
Hpurba8359/
Bpurba8345/
Purbat8329/
Ppurba8324/
Pourba8319/
Purbai8314/
Purbah8313/
Purbas837/
Purbad837/
Purrba834/
Puurba834/
Purbha834/
Paurba833/
Puirba831/
Phurwa831/
Phorba831/
Phurby830/
Purbaya773,088/
Purbaha7735/
Purbash7735/
Pourbad7714/
Purbaja7711/
Purbach7710/
Phurboo777/
Purbasp776/
Purbast774/
Pourbai773/
Purbhay771/
Phurber771/
Pourbaz771/
Purbe731,593/
Purwa731,231/
Purbo73630/
Purva73173/
Furba7365/
Purua7361/
Purbi7336/
Pirba7318/
Porba7317/
Vurba739/
Purby734/
Pourbhah7119/
Pourhbat711/
Pourbash711/
Pourbasz711/
Pourbaux711/
Pourbgah711/
Pourzbah711/
Purbey671,215/
Purvat67308/
Purbhe67269/
Furbay67184/
Pirbay67170/
Phurwo67167/
Poerba67150/
Purboo67124/
Purbhi67105/
Pourua6759/
Purvai6738/
Purbis6737/
Pourby6737/
Purbuj6733/
Purwai6729/
Purway6721/
Pirbai6720/
Pourbe6720/
Porbay6714/
Purvay6714/
Purbei6710/
Purbos6710/
Pirbha678/
Pfurwa676/
Pourbi676/
Purwaj675/
Purbet675/
Peurbo674/
Purbyi673/
Purwah673/
Purbie672/
Phorbe672/
Purbes672/
Puirva672/
Fourba672/
Purvaz672/
Purvea671/
Purber671/
Purbhy671/
Purvas671/
Putrbe671/
Peurbe671/
Paurua671/
Purbhé671/
Purboy671/
Pourva671/
Furbah671/
Furbau671/
Purrua671/
Purbho671/
Phorby670/
Puruat670/

Phurba Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Phurba in the Oriya language
ଫୁବର୍ାphubara-
Phurba in the Marathi language
फुबphuba-
Phurba in the Hindi language
पुर्बाpurba50
फूर्बाphurba50
Phurba in the Tibetan language
ཕུར་པ་purpa45.67
ཕུར་པ།purpa23.57
ཕུར་བ་purwa13.17
ཕུར་བ།purwa7.28
ཕུར་བཱ་purba4.77
པུར་པ་purpa1.91
པུར་བ་purwa0.69
ཕུརཔ་purpa0.52
ཕུར་བཱ།purba0.52
ཕུར་པpurpa0.52
ཕུར་བྷ་purbha0.17
ཕུར་བpurwa0.17
ཕུབ་pub0.17
འཕུར་བ།purwa0.09
པུར་བ།purwa0.09
ཕུར་བ་ཛpurwadza0.09
འཕུར་པ་purpa0.09
ཕུར་པ་།purpa0.09
བུར་པ་burpa0.09
པུར་བpurwa0.09
ཕེར་པ་perpa0.09
ཕུར་ཕ་purpa0.09
ཕུརབ་purab0.09

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