Tilana Surname

887,624th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 303 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
South Africa
Highest density in:
South Africa

Tilana Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Tilana Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
South Africa1991:272,25027,005
Indonesia481:2,755,192158,430
Philippines361:2,812,173137,318
Lesotho71:290,36515,938
India61:127,844,230863,365
Trinidad and Tobago31:454,65814,297
Brazil11:214,074,3321,693,628
England11:55,718,059489,080
France11:66,422,722504,397
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

The alternate forms: Tilaña (3) are calculated separately.

Tilana (415) may also be a first name.

Tilana Last Name Facts

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

The last name Tilana (Hindi: तिलाना) occurs most in South Africa. It can be found as a variant: Tilaña. Click here to see other potential spellings of Tilana.

How Common Is The Last Name Tilana? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 887,624th most commonly held last name world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 24,051,307 people. The last name Tilana is mostly found in Africa, where 68 percent of Tilana live; 68 percent live in Southern Africa and 68 percent live in South Bantu Africa. Tilana is also the 422,034th most frequently held forename globally, borne by 415 people.

Tilana is most commonly used in South Africa, where it is borne by 199 people, or 1 in 272,250. In South Africa it is primarily concentrated in: Eastern Cape, where 54 percent live, North West, where 16 percent live and Gauteng, where 14 percent live. Without taking into account South Africa this surname exists in 9 countries. It is also common in Indonesia, where 16 percent live and The Philippines, where 12 percent live.

Tilana Last Name Statistics demography

Tilana earn less than half the average income. In South Africa they earn 61.19% less than the national average, earning R 92,232 per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

Tilana Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Tilana in the Hindi language
तिलानाtilana83.33
टिलानाtilana16.67

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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 Tilana
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