Sherpa Surname

8,441st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 67,497 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
India
Highest density in:
Bhutan

Sherpa Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Sherpa Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
India59,1661:12,9651,066
Bhutan2,7131:22742
United States1,2731:284,72826,498
Nepal1,2151:23,4411,027
United Arab Emirates6031:15,1941,850
Saudi Arabia5961:51,7727,760
Qatar3401:6,935745
Malaysia2271:129,9318,406
Thailand1751:403,64870,850
Australia1391:194,21419,182
Spain1001:467,52024,100
England971:574,41334,909
Kuwait961:39,5914,718
Hong Kong841:87,3271,583
Canada691:533,99444,923
Ukraine671:679,44371,859
Bahrain591:22,8584,582
France551:1,207,686126,065
Germany381:2,118,565113,742
Switzerland331:248,87620,666
Russia311:4,649,131213,487
Brunei311:13,5071,681
New Zealand311:146,07517,002
Israel301:285,25425,178
Portugal281:372,08012,265
Belgium271:425,80243,971
Denmark201:282,23621,168
Isle of Man171:5,0481,065
Netherlands161:1,055,44866,951
Singapore131:423,66918,211
Norway111:467,48139,375
South Korea111:4,658,205839
Japan81:15,980,53747,042
Brazil61:35,679,055486,536
Wales51:618,90625,852
Poland51:7,601,750167,855
Finland41:1,374,17650,379
China41:341,830,39216,990
Sweden41:2,461,689157,534
Bangladesh41:39,839,19317,324
Iraq41:8,755,41423,373
Slovakia31:1,778,817104,392
Iceland31:126,6975,403
Indonesia31:44,083,065698,220
Afghanistan21:16,076,59243,178
Scotland21:2,676,90851,579
Taiwan21:11,722,37363,559
Philippines21:50,619,112341,003
Mexico21:62,063,10283,384
Maldives21:202,0864,973
Italy21:30,578,344160,757
Ireland11:4,708,93929,543
Puerto Rico11:3,550,1399,109
Austria11:8,515,435118,036
Chile11:17,616,47493,597
Czechia11:10,633,469206,023
Uganda11:39,039,279258,887
Transnistria11:474,69917,893
Tonga11:107,313791
Iran11:76,782,524277,718
Tanzania11:52,941,613123,716
Jersey11:99,2026,620
Jordan11:8,842,43726,010
Lebanon11:5,637,08332,436
Libya11:6,243,9746,186
South Africa11:54,177,704343,732
Lithuania11:3,034,58847,401
Luxembourg11:580,54215,155
Seychelles11:92,3931,532
Macau11:601,6301,582

Sherpa (361) may also be a first name.

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

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Scherpa9269/
Sherpas928/
Sherpaa922/
Sherppa921/
Ssherpa921/
Sherpah921/
Sherpat921/
Sherpaz921/
Serpa91142,004/
Sherpach861,769/
Shcherpa861/
Sherpahe861/
Serpas834,843/
Sharpa83353/
Cherpa83190/
Serpau83122/
Sherpy8375/
Sherpe8347/
Shirpa8343/
Serpay8338/
Scerpa8324/
Sherpi8322/
Shorpa8316/
Serpaz8316/
Serpaj839/
Sherpo835/
Seerpa834/
Searpa834/
Serppa833/
Serpat832/
Saerpa831/
Xserpa831/
Shyrpa831/
Serrpa831/
Serpaa831/
Szerpa831/
Sierpa831/
Scherpe77210/
Serpaud77172/
Sharpai77152/
Cherpas7746/
Cherpaz7740/
Serpeau7732/
Shirpad7728/
Sharpay7723/
Sherper7719/
Sheerpi7716/
Sherpey778/
Serpass776/
Cheerpa775/
Schirpa775/
Shirpai774/
Serpaut774/
Shirpas772/
Sherpes772/
Cherpat772/
Sherped771/
Cherpay771/
Shirpah771/
Shirpha771/
Sherpee771/
Sherrpy771/
Serpeas771/
Serphas771/
Sharppa771/
Scharpa771/
Sherppy771/
Shirpay771/
Sherphy770/
Sherpez770/
Zerpa7344,217/
Cerpa7313,688/
Sirpa735,113/
Serpe732,836/
Serpi732,098/
Sarpa731,801/
Sorpa7392/
Serpo7338/
Syrpa7329/
Serpy732/
Sérpa731/
Serpaggi71210/
Serpault71150/
Cherpeau7187/
Zscherpe7178/
Serpeaud7110/
Cherphat712/
Sherphed711/
Shearper711/
Sherpher711/
Sherpetz711/
Sherpeed710/
Sierpe67869/
Cerpas67651/
Serper67638/
Sarpay67179/
Sarpah67160/
Syrpas67138/
Serpes67114/
Serpez6795/
Cherpe6789/
Cherpi6766/
Chirpa6759/
Serpis6749/
Scirpa6744/
Szarpa6743/
Shirpi6741/
Cerpaz6741/
Sarpai6734/
Serphy6727/
Serpuj6727/
Seerpi6725/
Serpii6725/
Sirpat6724/
Shirpe6722/
Cherpy6714/
Sorpay6713/
Sharpo6712/
Serppe6711/
Sarpau678/
Serpio676/
Shirpy676/
Serpoi675/
Serpos675/
Sirpad675/
Sarpha672/
Sirepa672/
Zerpaa672/
Searpe672/
Sirpha672/
Cerpay671/
Ssarpa671/
Serpie671/
Serpeh671/
Sarpea671/
Sorpah671/
Serphi671/
Zerpha671/
Zeerpa671/
Zzerpa671/
Serpij671/
Serpot671/
Scherpper671/
Scharpeau670/

Sherpa Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Sherpa in the Oriya language
େଶପର୍ାesapara-
Sherpa in the Tibetan language
ཤེར་པ།sherpa98.44
ཤེར་པsherpa0.34
ཤེར་པ་།sherpa0.34
ཤར་པ།sharpa0.28
ཤེར་པ་sherpa0.17
ཤེས་རབ་།sherab0.06
ཤིར་པ།shirpa0.06
ཤེས་པ།shepa0.06
ཤེར་་པ།sherpa0.06
ཤེར་པ་ནི།sherpani0.06
ཤེཡ་པ།sheyapa0.06
ཤེེར་པ།sherpa0.06
ཤེ་པ།shepa0.06
Sherpa in the Hindi language
शेरपाserapa77.27
शेर्पाserpa21.21
शर्पाsarpa1.52
Sherpa in the Marathi language
शेरपाserapa63.64
शेपsepa36.36
Sherpa in the Russian language
Шерпаserpa-
Sherpa in the Arabic language
شرباshrba-

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