Quira Surname
Approximately 1,650 people bear this surname
Quira Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colombia | 1,614 | 1:29,600 | 1,909 |
| Spain | 8 | 1:5,844,004 | 86,878 |
| Uganda | 6 | 1:6,506,546 | 123,710 |
| Bolivia | 4 | 1:2,654,108 | 7,945 |
| France | 3 | 1:22,140,907 | 385,998 |
| Venezuela | 3 | 1:10,068,026 | 60,591 |
| Philippines | 3 | 1:33,746,074 | 302,898 |
| Panama | 1 | 1:3,912,258 | 17,195 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Mozambique | 1 | 1:27,261,569 | 7,432 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Guatemala | 1 | 1:16,082,668 | 12,169 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 1:25,109,342 | 694,541 |
The alternate forms: Quirá (4) are calculated separately.
Quira (199) may also be a first name.
Quira Demographics
Average Quira Salary in
Colombia
$17,744,000 COP
Per year
Average Salary in
Colombia
$22,702,486 COP
Per year
Quira Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Quira Come From? nationality or country of origin
Quira occurs more in Colombia more than any other country/territory. It can also appear as a variant: Quirá. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Quira? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 241,993rd most widely held surname on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 4,416,694 people. The surname occurs mostly in The Americas, where 99 percent of Quira live; 98 percent live in South America and 98 percent live in Caribbean South America. It is also the 642,605th most widespread first name world-wide It is held by 199 people.
This last name is most frequently used in Colombia, where it is held by 1,614 people, or 1 in 29,600. In Colombia it is primarily concentrated in: Cauca Department, where 56 percent live, Valle del Cauca Department, where 19 percent live and Huila Department, where 15 percent live. Outside of Colombia Quira is found in 15 countries. It also occurs in Spain, where 0 percent live and Uganda, where 0 percent live.
Quira Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Quira has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Quira last name declined 50 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Quira Last Name Statistics demography
Quira earn notably less less than the average income. In Colombia they earn 21.84% less than the national average, earning $17,744,000 COP per year.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Quira
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