Tanas Surname
Approximately 3,723 people bear this surname
Tanas Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turkey | 1,279 | 1:60,846 | 5,822 |
| Moldova | 445 | 1:8,003 | 1,315 |
| Ukraine | 347 | 1:131,189 | 18,498 |
| Philippines | 307 | 1:329,766 | 45,361 |
| Egypt | 305 | 1:301,429 | 19,796 |
| Italy | 164 | 1:372,907 | 43,105 |
| United States | 143 | 1:2,534,678 | 154,329 |
| Greece | 112 | 1:98,927 | 16,639 |
| Russia | 72 | 1:2,001,709 | 124,796 |
| France | 68 | 1:976,805 | 110,007 |
| Indonesia | 65 | 1:2,034,603 | 127,068 |
| Germany | 54 | 1:1,490,842 | 90,195 |
| Poland | 45 | 1:844,639 | 65,213 |
| Palestine | 33 | 1:137,844 | 7,971 |
| Kuwait | 29 | 1:131,058 | 14,967 |
| Dominican Republic | 23 | 1:453,606 | 14,824 |
| India | 19 | 1:40,371,862 | 445,856 |
| Nigeria | 19 | 1:9,323,303 | 191,560 |
| Papua New Guinea | 17 | 1:479,630 | 60,627 |
| Spain | 17 | 1:2,750,120 | 61,567 |
| Lebanon | 17 | 1:331,593 | 10,584 |
| Canada | 17 | 1:2,167,388 | 133,872 |
| Australia | 15 | 1:1,799,713 | 85,184 |
| Belarus | 13 | 1:730,851 | 59,297 |
| England | 11 | 1:5,065,278 | 148,650 |
| Albania | 11 | 1:264,914 | 15,006 |
| Haiti | 9 | 1:1,187,101 | 12,579 |
| United Arab Emirates | 9 | 1:1,018,030 | 36,884 |
| Qatar | 6 | 1:393,000 | 55,922 |
| Romania | 5 | 1:4,015,574 | 58,306 |
| Tanzania | 5 | 1:10,588,323 | 75,430 |
| Saudi Arabia | 4 | 1:7,713,954 | 37,548 |
| Taiwan | 4 | 1:5,861,186 | 33,577 |
| Bulgaria | 3 | 1:2,326,302 | 54,089 |
| Serbia | 2 | 1:3,572,474 | 32,645 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| Mexico | 2 | 1:62,063,102 | 83,384 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Iran | 2 | 1:38,391,262 | 236,033 |
| Jordan | 1 | 1:8,842,437 | 26,010 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Zambia | 1 | 1:15,849,922 | 53,989 |
| Yemen | 1 | 1:26,425,294 | 55,147 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Panama | 1 | 1:3,912,258 | 17,195 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Lithuania | 1 | 1:3,034,588 | 47,401 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | 1 | 1:55,199 | 1,294 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 41 | 1:1,224,846 | 68,768 |
The alternate forms: Tanaś (598), Tañas (238), Tanaş (1) & Tănas (1) are calculated separately.
Tanas (976) may also be a first name.
Tanas Demographics
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Tanas Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tanas Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Tanas (Arabic: تاناس, Marathi: तानस, Oriya: ତନସ, Russian: Танас) is borne by more people in Turkey than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered as a variant: Tanaś, Tañas, Tanaş or Tănas. For other potential spellings of Tanas click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Tanas? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 122,733rd most frequently used last name on earth, borne by around 1 in 1,957,439 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Asia, where 45 percent of Tanas live; 33 percent live in West Asia and 30 percent live in Anatolia and Highlands. Tanas is also the 257,954th most commonly used first name worldwide, held by 976 people.
This last name is most frequently used in Turkey, where it is borne by 1,279 people, or 1 in 60,846. In Turkey Tanas is primarily found in: Erzurum Province, where 55 percent are found, Gaziantep Province, where 13 percent are found and Istanbul Province, where 12 percent are found. Apart from Turkey Tanas occurs in 58 countries. It also occurs in Moldova, where 12 percent are found and Ukraine, where 9 percent are found.
Tanas Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Tanas has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Tanas last name grew 349 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Tanas Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those bearing the surname is principally Greek Orthodox (100%) in Lebanon and Orthodox (92%) in Ukraine.
In The United States those holding the Tanas surname are 26.08% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than The US average, with 79.31% registered with the political party.
The amount Tanas earn in different countries varies somewhat. In United States they earn 22.55% more than the national average, earning $52,881 USD per year and in Canada they earn 14.19% more than the national average, earning $56,732 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Tanas Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Tanas in the Oriya language | ||
| ତନସ | tanasa | - |
| Tanas in the Marathi language | ||
| तानस | tanasa | 50 |
| टनास | tanasa | 25 |
| तानास | tanasa | 25 |
| Tanas in the Russian language | ||
| Танас | tanas | - |
| Tanas in the Arabic language | ||
| تاناس | tanas | - |
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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 Tanas
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