Premawardana Surname

303,386th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 1,250 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Sri Lanka
Highest density in:
Sri Lanka

Premawardana Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Premawardana Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Sri Lanka1,2431:16,7412,341
United Arab Emirates41:2,290,56860,372
Australia11:26,995,701270,794
New Zealand11:4,528,32355,372
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Premawardana Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Premawardana Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Premawardana occurs more in Sri Lanka more than any other country/territory. It can occur in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Premawardana? popularity and diffusion

It is the 303,386th most frequent last name globally, borne by approximately 1 in 5,830,037 people. This last name is primarily found in Asia, where 100 percent of Premawardana live; 99 percent live in South Asia and 99 percent live in Indo-South Asia.

The surname is most frequently occurring in Sri Lanka, where it is carried by 1,243 people, or 1 in 16,741. Besides Sri Lanka this last name is found in 4 countries. It also occurs in The United Arab Emirates, where 0 percent reside and Australia, where 0 percent reside.

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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 Premawardana
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