Tirwa Surname

284,799th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 1,351 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nepal
Highest density in:
Bhutan

Tirwa Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Tirwa Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nepal8421:33,8251,237
India3481:2,204,21173,357
Bhutan1521:4,053236
South Africa41:13,544,426222,367
Canada11:36,845,591464,108
Germany11:80,505,459560,955
Nigeria11:177,142,758748,972
Uganda11:39,039,279258,887
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Tirwa (28) may also be a first name.

Tirwa Last Name Facts

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

The last name Tirwa (Tibetan: ཏིར་ཝ།) has its highest incidence in Nepal. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Tirwa? popularity and diffusion

The surname Tirwa is the 284,799th most commonly occurring last name world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 5,394,186 people. This last name occurs mostly in Asia, where 99 percent of Tirwa live; 99 percent live in South Asia and 88 percent live in Indo-South Asia. Tirwa is also the 1,994,417th most numerous given name worldwide. It is borne by 28 people.

It is most commonly occurring in Nepal, where it is carried by 842 people, or 1 in 33,825. In Nepal Tirwa is most prevalent in: Mahakali, where 100 percent reside and Bagmati, where 0 percent reside. Other than Nepal it exists in 8 countries. It also occurs in India, where 26 percent reside and Bhutan, where 11 percent reside.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Tirwad9113/
Tirway912/
Tairwa911/
Tairrwa835/
Tuirewa831/
Tairewa831/
Tierway831/
Tirva80115/
Tirba8081/
Tirua8066/
Turwa8027/
Tirwo8012/
Terwa8011/
Tirwe806/
Trewa802/
Tyrwa801/
Tairua73165/
Terway73126/
Terwua73112/
Terwad737/
Toirua736/
Tirvad736/
Turwah736/
Trewai736/
Tyorwa734/
Thirva732/
Terwah731/
Terwha731/
Thirua731/
Therwa731/
Turway731/
Terwaj731/
Trzewa731/
Teerwa731/
Therway679/
Therwat674/
Tirbhai674/
Tierwey672/
Terwait671/
Dhtirva671/
Tirbaha671/
Terwaiz671/
Terwahe671/
Tairweh671/
Teherwa671/
Trewhea670/

Tirwa Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Tirwa in the Tibetan language
ཏིར་ཝ།tirwa91.96
ཏིར་ཝར།tirwar8.04

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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 Tirwa
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