Thiagarajah Surname

242,837th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 1,643 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Sri Lanka
Highest density in:
Sri Lanka

Thiagarajah Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Thiagarajah Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Sri Lanka1,0231:20,3412,776
Malaysia2131:138,4718,817
Canada1211:304,50928,133
England1191:468,21930,572
United States811:4,474,802235,715
Australia281:964,13257,058
Singapore131:423,66918,211
Norway101:514,22941,629
Netherlands81:2,110,89788,902
New Zealand71:646,90340,014
Scotland51:1,070,76331,189
Switzerland51:1,642,58387,307
Germany21:40,252,730481,636
France11:66,422,722504,397
Hong Kong11:7,335,48316,643
India11:767,065,3821,851,717
Kuwait11:3,800,69427,187
Brazil11:214,074,3321,693,628
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
Bahrain11:1,348,60810,432
Thailand11:70,638,3451,175,915

Thiagarajah (177) may also be a first name.

Thiagarajah Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Thiagarajah Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Thiagarajah is found in Sri Lanka more than any other country/territory. It may occur in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Thiagarajah? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 242,837th most widely held surname globally, borne by around 1 in 4,435,512 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Asia, where 76 percent of Thiagarajah reside; 62 percent reside in South Asia and 62 percent reside in Indo-South Asia. It is also the 685,598th most common first name on earth, held by 177 people.

The last name Thiagarajah is most commonly used in Sri Lanka, where it is borne by 1,023 people, or 1 in 20,341. Other than Sri Lanka Thiagarajah occurs in 20 countries. It is also found in Malaysia, where 13 percent live and Canada, where 7 percent live.

Thiagarajah Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those bearing the Thiagarajah last name are 9.23% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 56% registered with the political party.

The amount Thiagarajah earn in different countries varies greatly. In Norway they earn 33.52% less than the national average, earning 230,058 kr per year; in United States they earn 30.28% more than the national average, earning $56,215 USD per year and in Canada they earn 6.37% less than the national average, earning $46,516 CAD per year.

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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 Thiagarajah
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