Potaya Surname
Approximately 316 people bear this surname
Potaya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 173 | 1:383,946 | 56,838 |
| Thailand | 72 | 1:981,088 | 150,124 |
| India | 49 | 1:15,654,396 | 253,566 |
| Papua New Guinea | 15 | 1:543,581 | 66,712 |
| Mauritius | 4 | 1:323,354 | 10,053 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
Potaya (75) may also be a first name.
Potaya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Potaya Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Potaya (Hindi: पोटया, Marathi: पोटया, Oriya: େପାତାୟା) is most common in France. It may appear as a variant:. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Potaya? popularity and diffusion
The surname Potaya is the 860,770th most frequently occurring surname worldwide It is held by around 1 in 23,061,854 people. It is mostly found in Africa, where 56 percent of Potaya reside; 55 percent reside in East Africa and 55 percent reside in Gallo-Indian Ocean. Potaya is also the 1,116,575th most commonly occurring first name internationally It is held by 75 people.
The last name is most frequently held in France, where it is carried by 173 people, or 1 in 383,946. In France Potaya is most frequent in: Réunion, where 100 percent are found. Apart from France it exists in 6 countries. It is also found in Thailand, where 23 percent are found and India, where 16 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Potaya Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Potaya in the Hindi language | ||
| पोटया | potaya | - |
| Potaya in the Marathi language | ||
| पोटया | potaya | 98.9 |
| पोतया | potaya | 0.55 |
| Potaya in the Oriya language | ||
| େପାତାୟା | epataya | 74.07 |
| େପାଟାୟା | epataya | 18.52 |
| େପାତୟା | epataya | 7.41 |
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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 Potaya
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