Sherpa Surname
Approximately 67,497 people bear this surname
Sherpa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 59,166 | 1:12,965 | 1,066 |
| Bhutan | 2,713 | 1:227 | 42 |
| United States | 1,273 | 1:284,728 | 26,498 |
| Nepal | 1,215 | 1:23,441 | 1,027 |
| United Arab Emirates | 603 | 1:15,194 | 1,850 |
| Saudi Arabia | 596 | 1:51,772 | 7,760 |
| Qatar | 340 | 1:6,935 | 745 |
| Malaysia | 227 | 1:129,931 | 8,406 |
| Thailand | 175 | 1:403,648 | 70,850 |
| Australia | 139 | 1:194,214 | 19,182 |
| Spain | 100 | 1:467,520 | 24,100 |
| England | 97 | 1:574,413 | 34,909 |
| Kuwait | 96 | 1:39,591 | 4,718 |
| Hong Kong | 84 | 1:87,327 | 1,583 |
| Canada | 69 | 1:533,994 | 44,923 |
| Ukraine | 67 | 1:679,443 | 71,859 |
| Bahrain | 59 | 1:22,858 | 4,582 |
| France | 55 | 1:1,207,686 | 126,065 |
| Germany | 38 | 1:2,118,565 | 113,742 |
| Switzerland | 33 | 1:248,876 | 20,666 |
| Russia | 31 | 1:4,649,131 | 213,487 |
| Brunei | 31 | 1:13,507 | 1,681 |
| New Zealand | 31 | 1:146,075 | 17,002 |
| Israel | 30 | 1:285,254 | 25,178 |
| Portugal | 28 | 1:372,080 | 12,265 |
| Belgium | 27 | 1:425,802 | 43,971 |
| Denmark | 20 | 1:282,236 | 21,168 |
| Isle of Man | 17 | 1:5,048 | 1,065 |
| Netherlands | 16 | 1:1,055,448 | 66,951 |
| Singapore | 13 | 1:423,669 | 18,211 |
| Norway | 11 | 1:467,481 | 39,375 |
| South Korea | 11 | 1:4,658,205 | 839 |
| Japan | 8 | 1:15,980,537 | 47,042 |
| Brazil | 6 | 1:35,679,055 | 486,536 |
| Wales | 5 | 1:618,906 | 25,852 |
| Poland | 5 | 1:7,601,750 | 167,855 |
| Finland | 4 | 1:1,374,176 | 50,379 |
| China | 4 | 1:341,830,392 | 16,990 |
| Sweden | 4 | 1:2,461,689 | 157,534 |
| Bangladesh | 4 | 1:39,839,193 | 17,324 |
| Iraq | 4 | 1:8,755,414 | 23,373 |
| Slovakia | 3 | 1:1,778,817 | 104,392 |
| Iceland | 3 | 1:126,697 | 5,403 |
| Indonesia | 3 | 1:44,083,065 | 698,220 |
| Afghanistan | 2 | 1:16,076,592 | 43,178 |
| Scotland | 2 | 1:2,676,908 | 51,579 |
| Taiwan | 2 | 1:11,722,373 | 63,559 |
| Philippines | 2 | 1:50,619,112 | 341,003 |
| Mexico | 2 | 1:62,063,102 | 83,384 |
| Maldives | 2 | 1:202,086 | 4,973 |
| Italy | 2 | 1:30,578,344 | 160,757 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | 1:3,550,139 | 9,109 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Chile | 1 | 1:17,616,474 | 93,597 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Transnistria | 1 | 1:474,699 | 17,893 |
| Tonga | 1 | 1:107,313 | 791 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Jersey | 1 | 1:99,202 | 6,620 |
| Jordan | 1 | 1:8,842,437 | 26,010 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 1:5,637,083 | 32,436 |
| Libya | 1 | 1:6,243,974 | 6,186 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Lithuania | 1 | 1:3,034,588 | 47,401 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Seychelles | 1 | 1:92,393 | 1,532 |
| Macau | 1 | 1:601,630 | 1,582 |
Sherpa (361) may also be a first name.
Sherpa Demographics
Average Sherpa Salary in
United States
$37,881 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Sherpa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sherpa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Sherpa (Arabic: شربا, Hindi: शेरपा, Marathi: शेरपा, Oriya: େଶପର୍ା, Russian: Шерпа, Tibetan: ཤེར་པ།) is most common in India. It may occur as:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Sherpa? popularity and diffusion
It is the 8,441st most numerous last name internationally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 107,968 people. The last name is predominantly found in Asia, where 97 percent of Sherpa are found; 93 percent are found in South Asia and 89 percent are found in Indo-South Asia. Sherpa is also the 458,188th most frequent given name at a global level. It is borne by 361 people.
The last name is most common in India, where it is borne by 59,166 people, or 1 in 12,965. In India it is mostly found in: West Bengal, where 54 percent are found, Sikkim, where 44 percent are found and Arunachal Pradesh, where 1 percent are found. Excluding India this surname occurs in 69 countries. It also occurs in Bhutan, where 4 percent are found and The United States, where 2 percent are found.
Sherpa Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States Sherpa are 0.82% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than the national average, with 54.05% registered with the party.
The amount Sherpa earn in different countries varies notably. In United States they earn 12.21% less than the national average, earning $37,881 USD per year and in Canada they earn 5.73% more than the national average, earning $52,529 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Sherpa Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Sherpa in the Oriya language | ||
| େଶପର୍ା | esapara | - |
| Sherpa in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཤེར་པ། | sherpa | 98.44 |
| ཤེར་པ | sherpa | 0.34 |
| ཤེར་པ་། | sherpa | 0.34 |
| ཤར་པ། | sharpa | 0.28 |
| ཤེར་པ་ | sherpa | 0.17 |
| ཤེས་རབ་། | sherab | 0.06 |
| ཤིར་པ། | shirpa | 0.06 |
| ཤེས་པ། | shepa | 0.06 |
| ཤེར་་པ། | sherpa | 0.06 |
| ཤེར་པ་ནི། | sherpani | 0.06 |
| ཤེཡ་པ། | sheyapa | 0.06 |
| ཤེེར་པ། | sherpa | 0.06 |
| ཤེ་པ། | shepa | 0.06 |
| Sherpa in the Hindi language | ||
| शेरपा | serapa | 77.27 |
| शेर्पा | serpa | 21.21 |
| शर्पा | sarpa | 1.52 |
| Sherpa in the Marathi language | ||
| शेरपा | serapa | 63.64 |
| शेप | sepa | 36.36 |
| Sherpa in the Russian language | ||
| Шерпа | serpa | - |
| Sherpa in the Arabic language | ||
| شربا | shrba | - |
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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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- 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 Sherpa
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