Purava Surname
Approximately 35 people bear this surname
Purava Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kosovo | 15 | 1:124,125 | 6,042 |
| Latvia | 7 | 1:292,864 | 24,791 |
| India | 6 | 1:127,844,230 | 863,365 |
| Papua New Guinea | 5 | 1:1,630,743 | 129,019 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
Purava (342) may also be a first name.
Purava Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Purava Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Purava (Hindi: पुरवा, Marathi: पूव, Russian: Пурава) is carried by more people in Kosovo than any other country/territory. It may be found in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of Purava.
How Common Is The Last Name Purava? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 3,323,005th most frequent surname world-wide, borne by around 1 in 208,215,598 people. The last name is predominantly found in Europe, where 69 percent of Purava live; 43 percent live in Southeastern Europe and 43 percent live in Albano-Europe. It is also the 472,030th most commonly held first name globally It is held by 342 people.
The surname Purava is most commonly occurring in Kosovo, where it is borne by 15 people, or 1 in 124,125. In Kosovo it is primarily concentrated in: District of Prizren, where 100 percent live. Beside Kosovo this last name is found in 5 countries. It is also found in Latvia, where 20 percent live and India, where 17 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Purava Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Purava in the Hindi language | ||
| पुरवा | purava | 71.43 |
| पूरवा | purava | 25 |
| पुरावा | purava | 3.57 |
| Purava in the Marathi language | ||
| पूव | puva | 51.61 |
| पुव | puva | 35.48 |
| पुरव | purava | 6.45 |
| पूवर् | puvar | 3.23 |
| पुरवा | purava | 3.23 |
| Purava in the Russian language | ||
| Пурава | purava | - |
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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 Purava
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