Porma Surname
Approximately 1,319 people bear this surname
Porma Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chile | 1,112 | 1:15,842 | 1,133 |
| Argentina | 145 | 1:294,782 | 23,564 |
| Philippines | 27 | 1:3,749,564 | 153,425 |
| Finland | 19 | 1:289,300 | 21,660 |
| India | 4 | 1:191,766,346 | 1,073,940 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Papua New Guinea | 2 | 1:4,076,858 | 165,791 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Taiwan | 1 | 1:23,444,746 | 93,622 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 7 | 1:7,174,098 | 302,835 |
Porma (263) may also be a first name.
Porma Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Porma Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Porma (Hindi: परमा, Russian: Порма) is borne by more people in Chile than any other country/territory. It can also be found in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Porma? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 290,346th most numerous family name on earth. It is borne by approximately 1 in 5,525,054 people. The surname Porma occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 96 percent of Porma live; 96 percent live in South America and 95 percent live in Hispanic Southern America. Porma is also the 548,616th most commonly held first name globally, held by 263 people.
This last name is most commonly used in Chile, where it is carried by 1,112 people, or 1 in 15,842. In Chile it is most prevalent in: Araucanía Region, where 44 percent live, Santiago Metropolitan Region, where 36 percent live and Bío Bío Region, where 13 percent live. Outside of Chile Porma exists in 12 countries. It also occurs in Argentina, where 11 percent live and The Philippines, where 2 percent live.
Porma Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Porma has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the last name fell 57 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Phonetically Similar Names
Porma Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Porma in the Hindi language | ||
| परमा | parama | - |
| Porma in the Russian language | ||
| Порма | porma | - |
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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 Porma
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