Ponaday Surname
Approximately 50 people bear this surname
Ponaday Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iran | 49 | 1:1,566,990 | 61,347 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
Ponaday Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ponaday Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Ponaday occurs more in Iran more than any other country or territory. It can appear as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of Ponaday.
How Common Is The Last Name Ponaday? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 2,746,821st most frequently occurring surname world-wide, held by around 1 in 145,750,918 people. This surname is predominantly found in Asia, where 100 percent of Ponaday are found; 100 percent are found in South Asia and 98 percent are found in Islamic South Asia.
It is most frequent in Iran, where it is held by 49 people, or 1 in 1,566,990. In Iran Ponaday is primarily concentrated in: Mazandaran Province, where 76 percent are found and Tehran Province, where 24 percent are found. Excluding Iran this last name exists in one country. It is also common in India, where 2 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
- 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 Ponaday
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