Pulau Surname
Approximately 179 people bear this surname
Pulau Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 76 | 1:107,286 | 14,507 |
| Indonesia | 69 | 1:1,916,655 | 121,671 |
| Malaysia | 30 | 1:983,141 | 44,226 |
| Thailand | 2 | 1:35,319,172 | 966,191 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Pulau (264) may also be a first name.
Pulau Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Pulau Come From? nationality or country of origin
Pulau (Hindi: पुलऊ, Russian: Пулау) occurs more in Papua New Guinea more than any other country or territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Pulau? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,276,805th most widely held surname throughout the world. It is borne by around 1 in 40,712,547 people. The surname occurs mostly in Asia, where 57 percent of Pulau reside; 56 percent reside in Southeast Asia and 55 percent reside in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia. Pulau is also the 547,545th most frequently occurring first name worldwide. It is borne by 264 people.
Pulau is most prevalent in Papua New Guinea, where it is held by 76 people, or 1 in 107,286. In Papua New Guinea it is most frequent in: Bougainville, where 79 percent live, New Ireland, where 11 percent live and East Sepik, where 7 percent live. Apart from Papua New Guinea Pulau is found in 5 countries. It is also found in Indonesia, where 39 percent live and Malaysia, where 17 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Pulau Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Pulau in the Hindi language | ||
| पुलऊ | pula'u | 58.33 |
| पुलाऊ | pula'u | 25 |
| पुलउ | pula'u | 8.33 |
| फुलऊ | phula'u | 4.17 |
| पुलाउ | pula'u | 4.17 |
| Pulau in the Russian language | ||
| Пулау | pulau | - |
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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 Pulau
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