Purite Surname
Approximately 40 people bear this surname
Purite Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 24 | 1:339,738 | 45,241 |
| Latvia | 12 | 1:170,837 | 20,647 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
The alternate forms: Pūrīte (1) are calculated separately.
Purite (14) may also be a first name.
Purite Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Purite Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Purite is most common in Papua New Guinea. It can be rendered as a variant: Pūrīte. Click here for other potential spellings of Purite.
How Common Is The Last Name Purite? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 3,100,440th most commonly occurring surname internationally, held by around 1 in 182,188,648 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Oceania, where 60 percent of Purite reside; 60 percent reside in Oceania Islands and 60 percent reside in Papuan Oceania. It is also the 3,024,661st most frequently held first name in the world. It is borne by 14 people.
Purite is most numerous in Papua New Guinea, where it is held by 24 people, or 1 in 339,738. In Papua New Guinea Purite is mostly concentrated in: Central, where 50 percent are found, National Capital District, where 46 percent are found and East Sepik, where 4 percent are found. Barring Papua New Guinea it occurs in 4 countries. It is also found in Latvia, where 30 percent are found and The United States, where 5 percent are found.
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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 Purite
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