Polau Surname
Approximately 111 people bear this surname
Polau Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 69 | 1:118,170 | 16,048 |
| Solomon Islands | 25 | 1:23,201 | 4,555 |
| Malaysia | 6 | 1:4,915,704 | 170,578 |
| India | 4 | 1:191,766,346 | 1,073,940 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Kiribati | 1 | 1:113,407 | 1,341 |
| Tuvalu | 1 | 1:11,188 | 103 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 1:25,109,342 | 694,541 |
Polau (25) may also be a first name.
Polau Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Polau Come From? nationality or country of origin
Polau (Hindi: पोलाउ, Oriya: େପାଳାଉ, Russian: Полау) has its highest incidence in Papua New Guinea. It can appear as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Polau? popularity and diffusion
Polau is the 1,736,881st most commonly occurring last name on a worldwide basis, held by approximately 1 in 65,653,567 people. The last name is mostly found in Oceania, where 86 percent of Polau reside; 86 percent reside in Oceania Islands and 62 percent reside in Papuan Oceania. It is also the 2,136,160th most commonly held first name internationally, borne by 25 people.
The last name is most commonly held in Papua New Guinea, where it is borne by 69 people, or 1 in 118,170. In Papua New Guinea Polau is most frequent in: Manus, where 65 percent live, National Capital District, where 23 percent live and East Sepik, where 6 percent live. Beside Papua New Guinea it is found in 7 countries. It also occurs in The Solomon Islands, where 23 percent live and Malaysia, where 5 percent live.
Polau Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Polau has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Polau surname expanded 200 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Phonetically Similar Names
Polau Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Polau in the Oriya language | ||
| େପାଳାଉ | epala'u | - |
| Polau in the Hindi language | ||
| पोलाउ | pola'u | 66.67 |
| पोलऊ | pola'u | 33.33 |
| Polau in the Russian language | ||
| Полау | polau | - |
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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 Polau
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