Sura Surname
Approximately 30,269 people bear this surname
Sura Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 12,794 | 1:59,955 | 4,095 |
| Indonesia | 3,654 | 1:36,193 | 4,218 |
| Ethiopia | 2,737 | 1:35,640 | 4,079 |
| United States | 1,848 | 1:196,136 | 19,339 |
| El Salvador | 1,327 | 1:4,781 | 502 |
| Poland | 1,033 | 1:36,795 | 5,707 |
| Thailand | 676 | 1:104,495 | 15,114 |
| Argentina | 539 | 1:79,301 | 6,693 |
| Nigeria | 410 | 1:432,056 | 22,278 |
| Chile | 375 | 1:46,977 | 2,181 |
| Germany | 370 | 1:217,582 | 24,518 |
| Tanzania | 344 | 1:153,900 | 13,914 |
| Philippines | 316 | 1:320,374 | 44,502 |
| Czechia | 306 | 1:34,750 | 5,696 |
| Sri Lanka | 292 | 1:71,262 | 7,441 |
| Ukraine | 291 | 1:156,435 | 21,679 |
| Kenya | 287 | 1:160,906 | 12,601 |
| England | 274 | 1:203,351 | 17,687 |
| United Arab Emirates | 256 | 1:35,790 | 3,775 |
| Solomon Islands | 235 | 1:2,468 | 228 |
| Canada | 194 | 1:189,926 | 18,713 |
| Iraq | 189 | 1:185,300 | 4,427 |
| Malaysia | 168 | 1:175,561 | 10,623 |
| Mexico | 117 | 1:1,060,908 | 13,559 |
| Russia | 107 | 1:1,346,944 | 95,217 |
| Taiwan | 99 | 1:236,816 | 1,987 |
| Papua New Guinea | 93 | 1:87,674 | 11,644 |
| DR Congo | 89 | 1:830,108 | 57,152 |
| Iran | 71 | 1:1,081,444 | 48,589 |
| Moldova | 68 | 1:52,373 | 7,527 |
| Honduras | 66 | 1:133,582 | 1,894 |
| Brazil | 60 | 1:3,567,906 | 100,128 |
| Turkey | 58 | 1:1,341,749 | 54,680 |
| Slovakia | 51 | 1:104,636 | 19,871 |
| Albania | 50 | 1:58,281 | 7,203 |
| Italy | 44 | 1:1,389,925 | 78,899 |
| Australia | 40 | 1:674,893 | 46,030 |
| Finland | 27 | 1:203,582 | 17,121 |
| Wales | 24 | 1:128,939 | 9,528 |
| Uganda | 21 | 1:1,859,013 | 62,128 |
| France | 21 | 1:3,162,987 | 209,042 |
| Zimbabwe | 18 | 1:857,680 | 57,134 |
| Qatar | 16 | 1:147,375 | 16,023 |
| Austria | 16 | 1:532,215 | 49,801 |
| Palestine | 14 | 1:324,918 | 11,054 |
| Singapore | 13 | 1:423,669 | 18,211 |
| Colombia | 13 | 1:3,674,929 | 15,922 |
| Sweden | 12 | 1:820,563 | 61,223 |
| Ecuador | 11 | 1:1,445,986 | 17,636 |
| Pakistan | 10 | 1:17,864,388 | 68,137 |
| Bangladesh | 9 | 1:17,706,308 | 13,537 |
| Latvia | 9 | 1:227,783 | 22,848 |
| Nicaragua | 8 | 1:752,636 | 4,372 |
| Nepal | 7 | 1:4,068,708 | 11,207 |
| Kazakhstan | 6 | 1:2,947,083 | 107,736 |
| Netherlands | 6 | 1:2,814,529 | 101,176 |
| Spain | 5 | 1:9,350,407 | 109,555 |
| Costa Rica | 5 | 1:956,014 | 6,058 |
| Egypt | 4 | 1:22,983,938 | 62,368 |
| Norway | 4 | 1:1,285,572 | 69,185 |
| Sudan | 4 | 1:9,377,549 | 8,207 |
| Maldives | 4 | 1:101,043 | 3,565 |
| Lebanon | 4 | 1:1,409,271 | 19,641 |
| South Africa | 3 | 1:18,059,235 | 248,362 |
| Switzerland | 3 | 1:2,737,638 | 105,941 |
| China | 3 | 1:455,773,855 | 21,925 |
| Israel | 3 | 1:2,852,545 | 113,505 |
| Croatia | 3 | 1:1,409,535 | 70,997 |
| Belarus | 2 | 1:4,750,530 | 139,516 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| Denmark | 2 | 1:2,822,358 | 76,882 |
| Yemen | 2 | 1:13,212,647 | 40,633 |
| Romania | 2 | 1:10,038,935 | 80,612 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
| Serbia | 1 | 1:7,144,948 | 38,459 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Jordan | 1 | 1:8,842,437 | 26,010 |
| Bahrain | 1 | 1:1,348,608 | 10,432 |
| Vietnam | 1 | 1:92,646,054 | 8,382 |
| Uzbekistan | 1 | 1:30,929,142 | 67,786 |
| Turkmenistan | 1 | 1:5,489,112 | 11,427 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 1 | 1:5,972,654 | 99,197 |
| Guatemala | 1 | 1:16,082,668 | 12,169 |
| Afghanistan | 1 | 1:32,153,183 | 60,828 |
| Syria | 1 | 1:19,301,022 | 22,457 |
| Brunei | 1 | 1:418,731 | 3,893 |
| Lithuania | 1 | 1:3,034,588 | 47,401 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Rwanda | 1 | 1:11,364,978 | 5,947 |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 1:7,335,483 | 16,643 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| Panama | 1 | 1:3,912,258 | 17,195 |
| Oman | 1 | 1:3,687,971 | 14,390 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Mongolia | 1 | 1:2,825,289 | 17,010 |
| Fiji | 1 | 1:894,391 | 4,568 |
| North Macedonia | 1 | 1:2,101,472 | 31,546 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 17 | 1:2,954,040 | 135,915 |
The alternate forms: Surá (513), Sůra (82), Šura (31), Súra (5), Surà (1), Šůra (11) & Šurá (6) are calculated separately.
Sura (45,760) may also be a first name.
Sura Demographics
Average Sura Salary in
United States
$43,910 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Sura Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sura Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Sura (Arabic: سورا, Bengali: সুর, Georgian: სურა, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺳﻴﺮﻩ, Hindi: सूरा, Marathi: सुरा, Oriya: ସୁର, Russian: Сура, Tibetan: སུ་ར་) is carried by more people in India than any other country or territory. It can also appear in the variant forms: Surá, Sůra, Šura, Súra, Surà, Šůra or Šurá. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Sura? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 18,228th most commonly used surname worldwide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 240,759 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Asia, where 62 percent of Sura reside; 44 percent reside in South Asia and 43 percent reside in Indo-South Asia. It is also the 19,920th most widely held first name internationally, borne by 45,760 people.
The last name is most widely held in India, where it is borne by 12,794 people, or 1 in 59,955. In India it is mostly found in: Andhra Pradesh, where 44 percent are found, Telangana, where 29 percent are found and Gujarat, where 9 percent are found. Aside from India this last name is found in 97 countries. It is also common in Indonesia, where 12 percent are found and Ethiopia, where 9 percent are found.
Sura Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Sura has changed over time. In The United States the share of the population with the last name increased 10,871 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Sura Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those bearing the Sura last name is principally Orthodox (60%) in Russia, Muslim (60%) in Kenya and Catholic (44%) in Ukraine.
In The United States those bearing the Sura surname are 0.44% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than the national average, with 52.79% registered to vote for the party.
The amount Sura earn in different countries varies greatly. In Italy they earn 4.05% less than the national average, earning €28,815 per year; in Colombia they earn 205.79% more than the national average, earning $69,422,000 COP per year; in United States they earn 1.76% more than the national average, earning $43,910 USD per year and in Canada they earn 4.59% more than the national average, earning $51,963 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Sura Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Sura in the Georgian language | ||
| სურა | sura | - |
| Sura in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺳﻴﺮﻩ | syrh | - |
| Sura in the Tibetan language | ||
| སུ་ར་ | sura | - |
| Sura in the Marathi language | ||
| सुरा | sura | 96.05 |
| सूरा | sura | 3.43 |
| सुर | sura | 0.28 |
| सुऱा | sura | 0.05 |
| Sura in the Bengali language | ||
| সুর | sura | 66.67 |
| সুরবালা | surabala | 16.67 |
| সুরা | sura | 5.56 |
| সুরদেবী | suradebi | 5.56 |
| সূর | sura | 5.56 |
| Sura in the Hindi language | ||
| सूरा | sura | 57.4 |
| सुरा | sura | 41.17 |
| सूर्य | surya | 0.27 |
| शूर | sura | 0.27 |
| शुर | sura | 0.14 |
| श्ूरा | sura | 0.14 |
| सुड़ा | sura | 0.07 |
| सुर | sura | 0.07 |
| सुर्य | surya | 0.07 |
| सुडा | suda | 0.07 |
| Sura in the Oriya language | ||
| ସୁର | sura | 50.08 |
| ସୁରା | sura | 38.95 |
| ଶୁରା | sura | 5.11 |
| ଶୁର | sura | 2.56 |
| ସୁେର | suera | 0.75 |
| ସୂରା | sura | 0.6 |
| ସୁରୁ | suru | 0.45 |
| ଶୂର | sura | 0.15 |
| ଶୁେର | suera | 0.15 |
| ସୂର | sura | 0.15 |
| Sura in the Russian language | ||
| Сура | sura | - |
| Sura in the Arabic language | ||
| سورا | swra | - |
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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 Sura
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