Projapati Surname

586,691st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 533 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
India
Highest density in:
India

Projapati Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Projapati Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
India5321:1,441,85254,882
Bangladesh11:159,356,77326,077

Projapati (207) may also be a first name.

Projapati Last Name Facts

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

Projapati (Marathi: जापती) is more frequently found in India than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Projapati? popularity and diffusion

Projapati is the 586,691st most commonly held surname on a worldwide basis, borne by approximately 1 in 13,672,694 people. The last name Projapati occurs mostly in Asia, where 100 percent of Projapati reside; 100 percent reside in South Asia and 100 percent reside in Indo-South Asia. Projapati is also the 629,010th most frequently used given name world-wide, borne by 207 people.

Projapati is most prevalent in India, where it is carried by 532 people, or 1 in 1,441,852. In India it is mostly concentrated in: West Bengal, where 78 percent are found, Assam, where 21 percent are found and Telangana, where 1 percent are found. Not including India this surname is found in one country. It is also common in Bangladesh, where 0 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

Projapati Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Projapati in the Marathi language
जापतीjapati-

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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 Projapati
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