Phurpa Surname

910,497th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 292 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
India
Highest density in:
Bhutan

Phurpa Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Phurpa Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
India1981:3,874,068106,327
Bhutan921:6,696290
Malaysia11:29,494,225409,885
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Phurpa (4,197) may also be a first name.

Phurpa Last Name Facts

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

The last name Phurpa (Hindi: फुरपा, Marathi: फुरपा, Tibetan: ཕུར་པ་) is carried by more people in India than any other country or territory. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Phurpa? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 910,497th most prevalent last name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by approximately 1 in 24,957,349 people. Phurpa is mostly found in Asia, where 100 percent of Phurpa reside; 99 percent reside in South Asia and 68 percent reside in Indo-South Asia. It is also the 107,132nd most frequently used first name globally. It is borne by 4,197 people.

The last name Phurpa is most frequent in India, where it is borne by 198 people, or 1 in 3,874,068. In India Phurpa is primarily found in: Arunachal Pradesh, where 99 percent are found and Maharashtra, where 1 percent are found. Beside India this last name exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in Bhutan, where 32 percent are found and Malaysia, where 0 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Purpa914/
Purpas838/
Pourpa836/
Purpai834/
Pourpas7770/
Phurpui771/
Pourpai771/
Pourpau771/
Purpeau771/
Purpi73148/
Porpa7329/
Purpo7312/
Purpy7312/
Purpe733/
Pirpa731/
Pourpach711/
Purper67771/
Pourpe6735/
Purpos6710/
Phorpe676/
Purpis673/
Pourpasht672/
Purphy672/
Furpaß671/
Furpap671/
Puerpo671/
Peurpo671/
Fourpa671/
Pirppa671/
Purpou670/
Purpee670/
Purpey670/

Phurpa Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Phurpa in the Hindi language
फुरपाphurapa-
Phurpa in the Marathi language
फुरपाphurapa-
Phurpa in the Tibetan language
ཕུར་པ་purpa78.27
ཕུར་པ།purpa17.89
ཕུར་པpurpa0.82
ཕུར་བ་purwa0.74
ཕུརཔ་purpa0.65
ཕུར་བ།purwa0.33
པུར་པ་purpa0.25
ཕུན་པ་pünpa0.16
འཕུར་པ་purpa0.16
ཕུར་པཱ་purpa0.08
འཕུར་པ།purpa0.08
ཕུར་པཱpurpa0.08
པུར་བ་purwa0.08
ཕུར་མ་purma0.08
མུར་པ་murpa0.08
པུར་པ།purpa0.08
བུར་པ་burpa0.08
ཕུརཔ་པ།purpapa0.08

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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
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  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Phurpa
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