Quresh Surname
Approximately 6,445 people bear this surname
Quresh Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pakistan | 4,121 | 1:43,350 | 1,860 |
| Jordan | 506 | 1:17,475 | 2,722 |
| India | 374 | 1:2,050,977 | 69,832 |
| Yemen | 261 | 1:101,246 | 6,101 |
| Palestine | 253 | 1:17,980 | 2,993 |
| Somalia | 245 | 1:54,906 | 2,420 |
| Syria | 184 | 1:104,897 | 3,403 |
| Saudi Arabia | 159 | 1:194,062 | 29,524 |
| Kuwait | 116 | 1:32,765 | 4,071 |
| United Arab Emirates | 51 | 1:179,652 | 12,842 |
| Tunisia | 42 | 1:14,539 | 2,384 |
| England | 21 | 1:2,653,241 | 94,788 |
| Lebanon | 20 | 1:281,854 | 9,826 |
| Kenya | 20 | 1:2,308,995 | 36,653 |
| Iraq | 16 | 1:2,188,853 | 19,343 |
| United States | 15 | 1:24,163,929 | 685,360 |
| Canada | 10 | 1:3,684,559 | 191,443 |
| Tanzania | 9 | 1:5,882,401 | 60,754 |
| Isle of Man | 7 | 1:12,260 | 2,387 |
| Nigeria | 6 | 1:29,523,793 | 355,097 |
| Malawi | 4 | 1:4,279,777 | 24,060 |
| China | 2 | 1:683,660,783 | 30,601 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1:159,356,773 | 26,077 |
| Haiti | 1 | 1:10,683,907 | 24,607 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
Quresh (1,874) may also be a first name.
Quresh Demographics
Quresh Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Quresh Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Quresh Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Quresh (Hindi: कुरैशी, Marathi: कुरेश, Oriya: କୁେରଶ) is carried by more people in Pakistan than any other country/territory. It may occur as:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Quresh.
How Common Is The Last Name Quresh? popularity and diffusion
Quresh is the 76,095th most widespread surname at a global level, borne by around 1 in 1,130,729 people. The last name is mostly found in Asia, where 94 percent of Quresh live; 70 percent live in South Asia and 66 percent live in Islamic South Asia. It is also the 175,764th most widespread first name throughout the world, borne by 1,874 people.
This surname is most frequently used in Pakistan, where it is carried by 4,121 people, or 1 in 43,350. In Pakistan Quresh is most numerous in: Sindh, where 43 percent live, Punjab, where 33 percent live and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where 18 percent live. Besides Pakistan Quresh exists in 24 countries. It is also found in Jordan, where 8 percent live and India, where 6 percent live.
Quresh Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those holding the surname is chiefly Muslim (100%) in Kenya and Druze (84%) in Lebanon.
Quresh earn somewhat more than the average income. In United States they earn 7.43% more than the national average, earning $46,357 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Quresh Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Quresh in the Oriya language | ||
| କୁେରଶ | kuerasa | 66.67 |
| କୁେରସ | kuerasa | 33.33 |
| Quresh in the Marathi language | ||
| कुरेश | kuresa | 51.68 |
| कुरेशी | kuresi | 30.87 |
| क़ुरेश | quresa | 7.38 |
| क़ुरेिश | qureisa | 5.37 |
| कूरेश | kuresa | 1.34 |
| क्युरेश | kyuresa | 1.34 |
| कूरेशी | kuresi | 1.34 |
| कुरेस | kuresa | 0.67 |
| Quresh in the Hindi language | ||
| कुरैशी | kuraisi | 42.86 |
| कुरैश | kuraisa | 28.57 |
| कुरेश | kuresa | 14.29 |
| क़ुरेशा | quresa | 14.29 |
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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 Quresh
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