Puru Surname
Approximately 1,611 people bear this surname
Puru Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 309 | 1:2,482,412 | 79,431 |
| Papua New Guinea | 241 | 1:33,833 | 3,966 |
| New Zealand | 235 | 1:19,269 | 3,387 |
| Indonesia | 193 | 1:685,229 | 53,355 |
| Uganda | 175 | 1:223,082 | 17,283 |
| DR Congo | 75 | 1:985,061 | 64,020 |
| Australia | 69 | 1:391,242 | 31,907 |
| Solomon Islands | 69 | 1:8,406 | 1,382 |
| Cameroon | 61 | 1:340,477 | 30,746 |
| Romania | 47 | 1:427,189 | 34,091 |
| South Africa | 45 | 1:1,203,949 | 68,637 |
| Estonia | 27 | 1:48,956 | 9,235 |
| Nigeria | 11 | 1:16,103,887 | 259,204 |
| United States | 10 | 1:36,245,893 | 832,629 |
| Finland | 7 | 1:785,243 | 38,644 |
| United Arab Emirates | 4 | 1:2,290,568 | 60,372 |
| Sri Lanka | 4 | 1:5,202,140 | 12,146 |
| Singapore | 4 | 1:1,376,926 | 28,409 |
| Brazil | 4 | 1:53,518,583 | 632,670 |
| Malaysia | 4 | 1:7,373,556 | 230,001 |
| Kenya | 4 | 1:11,544,975 | 62,419 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Nepal | 1 | 1:28,480,956 | 22,413 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Uzbekistan | 1 | 1:30,929,142 | 67,786 |
Puru (5,644) may also be a first name.
Puru Demographics
Puru Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Puru Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Puru Come From? nationality or country of origin
Puru (Bengali: পুরু, Hindi: पुरू, Marathi: पुरु, Oriya: ପୁରୁ, Russian: Пуру, Tibetan: སྤུ་རུ།) occurs in India more than any other country/territory. It can be found in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Puru? popularity and diffusion
It is the 246,797th most frequently used surname on a global scale, borne by around 1 in 4,523,616 people. It occurs mostly in Oceania, where 39 percent of Puru live; 20 percent live in Oceania Islands and 19 percent live in Indo-South Asia. Puru is also the 89,088th most frequently used first name globally, held by 5,644 people.
The last name is most widespread in India, where it is carried by 309 people, or 1 in 2,482,412. In India Puru is most prevalent in: Andhra Pradesh, where 31 percent reside, Telangana, where 24 percent reside and Karnataka, where 9 percent reside. Beside India it exists in 31 countries. It is also found in Papua New Guinea, where 15 percent reside and New Zealand, where 15 percent reside.
Puru Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the Puru surname is predominantly Muslim (50%) in Kenya.
The amount Puru earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 51.97% less than the national average, earning R 114,132 per year; in United States they earn 34.14% less than the national average, earning $28,417 USD per year and in Canada they earn 1.95% more than the national average, earning $50,652 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Puru Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Puru in the Bengali language | ||
| পুরু | puru | - |
| Puru in the Oriya language | ||
| ପୁରୁ | puru | 98.44 |
| Puru in the Hindi language | ||
| पुरू | puru | 79.5 |
| पुरु | puru | 17 |
| पूरू | puru | 2.5 |
| पूरु | puru | 1 |
| Puru in the Marathi language | ||
| पुरु | puru | 61.9 |
| पुरू | puru | 30.69 |
| पूरू | puru | 4.23 |
| पूरु | puru | 1.59 |
| पुरा | pura | 0.53 |
| Puru in the Tibetan language | ||
| སྤུ་རུ། | puru | 50 |
| པུ་རུ་ | puru | 50 |
| Puru in the Russian language | ||
| Пуру | puru | - |
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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 Puru
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