Poojan Surname
Approximately 2,741 people bear this surname
Poojan Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 2,716 | 1:282,425 | 16,066 |
| Thailand | 20 | 1:3,531,917 | 315,217 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Poojan (906) may also be a first name.
Poojan Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Poojan Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Poojan (Hindi: पूजन, Marathi: पूजन, Tibetan: པུ་འཇན་) is carried by more people in India than any other country or territory. It can also appear in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Poojan? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 159,215th most frequently used last name on earth. It is borne by around 1 in 2,658,718 people. This last name is predominantly found in Asia, where 100 percent of Poojan are found; 99 percent are found in South Asia and 99 percent are found in Indo-South Asia. It is also the 269,579th most frequent given name world-wide It is held by 906 people.
The last name is most frequently held in India, where it is carried by 2,716 people, or 1 in 282,425. In India it is most frequent in: Uttar Pradesh, where 89 percent reside, Delhi, where 9 percent reside and Uttarkhand, where 1 percent reside. Not including India this last name occurs in 5 countries. It is also common in Thailand, where 1 percent reside and Sweden, where 0 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Poojan Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Poojan in the Hindi language | ||
| पूजन | pujana | 99.65 |
| पुजन | pujana | 0.25 |
| पूजाण् | pujan | 0.05 |
| पूजऩ | pujana | 0.05 |
| Poojan in the Marathi language | ||
| पूजन | pujana | 82.54 |
| पुजन | pujana | 17.46 |
| Poojan in the Tibetan language | ||
| པུ་འཇན་ | pujen | 50 |
| པུ་ནམ་ | punam | 50 |
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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 Poojan
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