Shirai Surname
Approximately 96,514 people bear this surname
Shirai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japan | 94,707 | 1:1,350 | 253 |
| Micronesia | 715 | 1:149 | 18 |
| United States | 536 | 1:676,229 | 53,846 |
| Brazil | 206 | 1:1,039,196 | 36,605 |
| Thailand | 75 | 1:941,845 | 145,864 |
| Iran | 69 | 1:1,112,790 | 49,471 |
| Afghanistan | 36 | 1:893,144 | 8,921 |
| Philippines | 22 | 1:4,601,737 | 165,269 |
| Mexico | 16 | 1:7,757,888 | 35,569 |
| Australia | 15 | 1:1,799,713 | 85,184 |
| Argentina | 13 | 1:3,287,955 | 132,850 |
| Canada | 11 | 1:3,349,599 | 180,238 |
| India | 10 | 1:76,706,538 | 639,611 |
| Switzerland | 9 | 1:912,546 | 58,198 |
| United Arab Emirates | 8 | 1:1,145,284 | 40,289 |
| Spain | 6 | 1:7,792,006 | 100,283 |
| England | 6 | 1:9,286,343 | 223,652 |
| Taiwan | 5 | 1:4,688,949 | 27,695 |
| Netherlands | 5 | 1:3,377,435 | 111,911 |
| Malaysia | 5 | 1:5,898,845 | 196,803 |
| Dominican Republic | 4 | 1:2,608,233 | 20,941 |
| France | 4 | 1:16,605,680 | 368,153 |
| Italy | 4 | 1:15,289,172 | 132,955 |
| New Zealand | 3 | 1:1,509,441 | 47,971 |
| Pakistan | 3 | 1:59,547,962 | 132,569 |
| Belarus | 3 | 1:3,167,020 | 121,664 |
| Germany | 3 | 1:26,835,153 | 452,368 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Lithuania | 1 | 1:3,034,588 | 47,401 |
| Vietnam | 1 | 1:92,646,054 | 8,382 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Paraguay | 1 | 1:7,236,746 | 16,511 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 1:12,554,671 | 503,821 |
Shirai (65) may also be a first name.
Shirai Demographics
Average Male Shirai Height
169.77 cm
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Shirai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Shirai Come From? nationality or country of origin
Shirai (Bengali: শিরাই, Hindi: शीराी, Oriya: ଶିରାଇ, Russian: Шираи) is carried by more people in Japan than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Shirai? popularity and diffusion
The last name Shirai is the 5,850th most commonly used surname worldwide It is held by around 1 in 75,508 people. The last name Shirai occurs mostly in Asia, where 98 percent of Shirai live; 98 percent live in East Asia and 98 percent live in Nippono-Asia. Shirai is also the 1,212,820th most frequent first name throughout the world, held by 65 people.
The surname Shirai is most widely held in Japan, where it is carried by 94,707 people, or 1 in 1,350. In Japan Shirai is most frequent in: Aichi Prefecture, where 16 percent are found, Tokyo Metropolis, where 13 percent are found and Kanagawa Prefecture, where 11 percent are found. Besides Japan Shirai is found in 41 countries. It is also common in Micronesia, where 1 percent are found and The United States, where 1 percent are found.
Shirai Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Shirai has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Shirai last name rose 13,400 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Shirai Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Shirai surname are 30.44% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than The US average, with 83.67% registered with the party.
The amount Shirai earn in different countries varies markedly. In United States they earn 5.13% more than the national average, earning $45,362 USD per year and in Canada they earn 52.2% more than the national average, earning $75,619 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Shirai Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Shirai in the Bengali language | ||
| শিরাই | sira'i | - |
| Shirai in the Oriya language | ||
| ଶିରାଇ | sira'i | - |
| Shirai in the Hindi language | ||
| शीराी | sirai | 66.67 |
| शिरै | sirai | 33.33 |
| Shirai in the Russian language | ||
| Шираи | sirai | - |
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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 Shirai
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