Pulekar Surname

307,224th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 1,230 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
India
Highest density in:
Qatar

Pulekar Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Pulekar Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
India1,2121:632,89230,081
Qatar91:262,00030,726
United Arab Emirates41:2,290,56860,372
United States31:120,819,6441,331,040
Japan11:127,844,29373,547
Oman11:3,687,97114,390

Pulekar (10) may also be a first name.

Pulekar Last Name Facts

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

Pulekar (Marathi: पुळेकर) has its highest incidence in India. It may also appear in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Pulekar? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 307,224th most commonly held last name at a global level It is held by approximately 1 in 5,924,834 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Asia, where 100 percent of Pulekar reside; 99 percent reside in South Asia and 99 percent reside in Indo-South Asia. Pulekar is also the 3,684,242nd most frequently used first name at a global level, borne by 10 people.

The last name Pulekar is most widespread in India, where it is borne by 1,212 people, or 1 in 632,892. In India Pulekar is mostly found in: Maharashtra, where 97 percent reside, Telangana, where 1 percent reside and Karnataka, where 0 percent reside. Aside from India this last name exists in 5 countries. It is also common in Qatar, where 1 percent reside and The United Arab Emirates, where 0 percent reside.

Phonetically Similar Names

Pulekar Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Pulekar in the Marathi language
पुळेकरpulekara53.13
पुलेकरpulekara44.84
पुलेकारpulekara0.12
पूलेकरpulekara0.12
कुलेकरkulekara0.12
पुळैकरpulaikara0.12
शेकरsekara0.12
पुलॆकरpulekara0.12
फलेकरphalekara0.12
पुलकरpulakara0.12
पूळेकरpulekara0.12
पुडेकरpudekara0.12

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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 Pulekar
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