Puwar Surname

387,740th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 915 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
India
Highest density in:
Bhutan

Puwar Surname User-submission:

It is an Indian surname. Pawar Surname is found among the Rajput origin. Pawar is also a clan among the Maratha and Chhetri (Khas Rajput) clan of Nepal.

Parmar is a Jat, Gurjar and Rajput clan found in Northern India, especially in Rajasthan, Kutch and Sindh.

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Puwar Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
India5311:1,444,56854,974
Nepal2531:112,5732,235
Bhutan551:11,201373
England441:1,266,32057,817
United States131:27,881,456736,413
Qatar91:262,00030,726
Pakistan31:59,547,962132,569
Germany21:40,252,730481,636
Canada11:36,845,591464,108
Poland11:38,008,749231,653
Rwanda11:11,364,9785,947
Scotland11:5,353,81763,002
Spain11:46,752,036156,870

Puwar (156) may also be a first name.

Puwar Surname Meaning

User-submitted Reference

It is an Indian surname. Pawar Surname is found among the Rajput origin. Pawar is also a clan among the Maratha and Chhetri (Khas Rajput) clan of Nepal.

Parmar is a Jat, Gurjar and Rajput clan found in Northern India, especially in Rajasthan, Kutch and Sindh. There are multiple variants of the name, including Pramar, Panwar, Pawar, Powar, Puwar, Punwar and Puar.

- yukonpanwar

Puwar Last Name Facts

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

Puwar (Hindi: पुवार्, Tibetan: པུ་ཝར།) is most common in India. It may also be found as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Puwar? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 387,740th most commonly used last name globally, borne by approximately 1 in 7,964,531 people. The last name Puwar is primarily found in Asia, where 93 percent of Puwar live; 92 percent live in South Asia and 86 percent live in Indo-South Asia. Puwar is also the 735,679th most commonly occurring first name internationally, borne by 156 people.

The surname Puwar is most widely held in India, where it is carried by 531 people, or 1 in 1,444,568. In India Puwar is most common in: Assam, where 72 percent live, Gujarat, where 11 percent live and West Bengal, where 5 percent live. Barring India this surname exists in 12 countries. It is also found in Nepal, where 28 percent live and Bhutan, where 6 percent live.

Puwar Last Name Statistics demography

Puwar earn more than double the average income. In United States they earn 101.82% more than the national average, earning $87,083 USD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Puware91108/
Puwarr9113/
Pauwar9111/
Pauhwar832/
Pauwart831/
Pusward831/
Powar8054,321/
Puvar803,706/
Pubar8055/
Piwar8054/
Puwor807/
Pouwhare77100/
Powaar7354/
Puivar7349/
Pauvar7318/
Puevar738/
Poowar737/
Puvarr736/
Pouvar735/
Puybar733/
Puvard732/
Phuvar732/
Ppowar732/
Powarr731/
Puuvar731/
Puworr731/
Powear731/
Puvare731/
Puvair731/
Puvaar731/
Pubaur730/
Puivart673/
Piewaar672/
Pouvard671/
Phowair671/
Pushvar671/
Pauvhar671/

Puwar Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Puwar in the Tibetan language
པུ་ཝར།puwar83.05
པུ་ཝར་puwar6.78
བྷ་འདུར་པུ་ཝན་bhadurpuwen3.39
པོ་ཝར།powar1.69
མ་ཡ་པོ་ཝར་mayapowar1.69
མ་ཡ་པུ་ཝན་mayapuwen1.69
མ་ཡ་་པུ་ཝན་mayapuwen1.69
Puwar in the Hindi language
पुवार्puvar66.67
पुरवारpuravara33.33

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