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Where Does The Last Name Prakas Come From? ^{nationality or country of origin}

Prakas (Hindi: प्रकास, Marathi: कास, Oriya: ପକାସ) is borne by more people in India than any other country or territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Prakas? ^{popularity and diffusion}

The surname is the 58,044^th most frequently occurring surname in the world, borne by approximately 1 in 836,015 people. This surname is mostly found in Asia, where 99 percent of Prakas are found; 98 percent are found in South Asia and 98 percent are found in Indo-South Asia. It is also the 3,866^th most frequently used first name world-wide, borne by 271,474 people.

This surname is most numerous in India, where it is held by 8,329 people, or 1 in 92,096. In India Prakas is most frequent in: Uttar Pradesh, where 39 percent live, Gujarat, where 18 percent live and Karnataka, where 10 percent live. Beside India this last name exists in 22 countries. It is also found in Nepal, where 2 percent live and The United States, where 1 percent live.

Prakas Last Name Statistics ^demography

In The United States those holding the Prakas surname are 18.2% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 71.43% registered with the party.

Prakas earn notably more than the average income. In United States they earn 22.03% more than the national average, earning $52,654 USD per year.