Sankanur Surname
Approximately 792 people bear this surname
Sankanur Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 791 | 1:969,741 | 41,335 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Sankanur Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sankanur Come From? nationality or country of origin
Sankanur (Marathi: संकनुर) is held by more people in India than any other country/territory. It may also be found in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Sankanur? popularity and diffusion
Sankanur is the 434,076th most frequent surname on a worldwide basis, borne by around 1 in 9,201,447 people. The last name Sankanur occurs predominantly in Asia, where 100 percent of Sankanur reside; 100 percent reside in South Asia and 100 percent reside in Indo-South Asia.
The last name is most widespread in India, where it is carried by 791 people, or 1 in 969,741. In India it is most frequent in: Karnataka, where 96 percent live and Maharashtra, where 3 percent live. Besides India Sankanur exists in one country. It also occurs in The United States, where 0 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Sankanur Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Sankanur in the Marathi language | ||
| संकनुर | sankanura | 81.25 |
| िसकंदर | isakandara | 6.25 |
| संकनूर | sankanura | 6.25 |
| संकणूर | sankanura | 6.25 |
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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 Sankanur
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