Tuka Surname
Approximately 7,618 people bear this surname
Tuka Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 2,005 | 1:65,960 | 7,147 |
| DR Congo | 814 | 1:90,761 | 10,309 |
| Papua New Guinea | 716 | 1:11,388 | 1,013 |
| Tanzania | 511 | 1:103,604 | 10,117 |
| India | 424 | 1:1,809,116 | 64,170 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 363 | 1:9,742 | 1,968 |
| Philippines | 357 | 1:283,580 | 40,937 |
| Uganda | 273 | 1:143,001 | 12,845 |
| Poland | 272 | 1:139,738 | 20,228 |
| Albania | 245 | 1:11,894 | 2,203 |
| Ukraine | 214 | 1:212,723 | 28,531 |
| Cameroon | 205 | 1:101,313 | 11,968 |
| Turkey | 174 | 1:447,250 | 26,312 |
| Hungary | 163 | 1:60,223 | 6,277 |
| Nigeria | 133 | 1:1,331,900 | 52,479 |
| United States | 109 | 1:3,325,311 | 189,554 |
| Czechia | 54 | 1:196,916 | 28,617 |
| Croatia | 50 | 1:84,572 | 14,311 |
| Russia | 49 | 1:2,941,287 | 160,625 |
| Austria | 46 | 1:185,118 | 23,639 |
| Slovakia | 45 | 1:118,588 | 22,142 |
| Thailand | 39 | 1:1,811,240 | 225,763 |
| South Africa | 35 | 1:1,547,934 | 78,799 |
| Canada | 31 | 1:1,188,567 | 86,017 |
| Latvia | 30 | 1:68,335 | 10,134 |
| Malaysia | 23 | 1:1,282,358 | 54,976 |
| Brazil | 22 | 1:9,730,651 | 206,332 |
| Germany | 21 | 1:3,833,593 | 163,016 |
| Liberia | 21 | 1:209,930 | 13,691 |
| Serbia | 20 | 1:357,247 | 16,776 |
| Kazakhstan | 18 | 1:982,361 | 58,740 |
| New Zealand | 17 | 1:266,372 | 23,826 |
| Sweden | 12 | 1:820,563 | 61,223 |
| Estonia | 12 | 1:110,150 | 19,471 |
| United Arab Emirates | 11 | 1:832,934 | 27,512 |
| Australia | 9 | 1:2,999,522 | 116,751 |
| England | 9 | 1:6,190,895 | 170,599 |
| Lesotho | 8 | 1:254,070 | 15,268 |
| Slovenia | 7 | 1:355,382 | 17,336 |
| Denmark | 5 | 1:1,128,943 | 52,970 |
| Botswana | 4 | 1:546,732 | 22,624 |
| Egypt | 4 | 1:22,983,938 | 62,368 |
| France | 4 | 1:16,605,680 | 368,153 |
| Kenya | 4 | 1:11,544,975 | 62,419 |
| Norway | 3 | 1:1,714,095 | 79,528 |
| Taiwan | 3 | 1:7,814,915 | 41,694 |
| Greece | 2 | 1:5,539,895 | 129,142 |
| Belarus | 2 | 1:4,750,530 | 139,516 |
| Mexico | 2 | 1:62,063,102 | 83,384 |
| Kosovo | 2 | 1:930,934 | 12,188 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | 1:3,550,139 | 9,109 |
| Angola | 1 | 1:26,989,214 | 11,853 |
| Mongolia | 1 | 1:2,825,289 | 17,010 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| Lithuania | 1 | 1:3,034,588 | 47,401 |
| Transnistria | 1 | 1:474,699 | 17,893 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Georgia | 1 | 1:3,745,545 | 47,852 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Solomon Islands | 1 | 1:580,029 | 22,243 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 1:10,043,737 | 422,899 |
The alternate forms: Ťuka (41) & Tůka (1) are calculated separately.
Tuka (14,097) may also be a first name.
Tuka Demographics
Average Tuka Salary in
United States
$44,245 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Tuka Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tuka Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Tuka (Georgian: ტუკა, Hindi: तुका, Marathi: तुका, Oriya: ଟୁକା, Russian: Тука, Tibetan: ཏུ་ཀ་) has its highest incidence in Indonesia. It can occur as: Ťuka or Tůka. Click here for other potential spellings of Tuka.
How Common Is The Last Name Tuka? popularity and diffusion
It is the 65,515th most common last name world-wide, borne by around 1 in 956,622 people. The last name Tuka occurs predominantly in Asia, where 40 percent of Tuka reside; 32 percent reside in Southeast Asia and 29 percent reside in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia. Tuka is also the 48,396th most commonly occurring forename world-wide, held by 14,097 people.
The last name is most frequently used in Indonesia, where it is carried by 2,005 people, or 1 in 65,960. In Indonesia Tuka is most common in: East Nusa Tenggara, where 84 percent reside, North Maluku, where 3 percent reside and East Kalimantan, where 2 percent reside. Besides Indonesia this surname is found in 65 countries. It also occurs in The DR Congo, where 11 percent reside and Papua New Guinea, where 9 percent reside.
Tuka Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Tuka has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Tuka last name increased 2,180 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Tuka Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those carrying the surname is primarily Orthodox (56%) in Ukraine.
In The United States those holding the Tuka surname are 11.01% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 57.78% registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Tuka earn in different countries varies greatly. In Norway they earn 17.45% less than the national average, earning 285,675 kr per year; in South Africa they earn 79.21% less than the national average, earning R 49,404 per year; in United States they earn 2.54% more than the national average, earning $44,245 USD per year and in Canada they earn 2.93% more than the national average, earning $51,140 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Tuka Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Tuka in the Marathi language | ||
| तुका | tuka | 94.37 |
| तूका | tuka | 4.08 |
| टुका | tuka | 1.29 |
| टूका | tuka | 0.15 |
| Tuka in the Hindi language | ||
| तुका | tuka | 70 |
| टूका | tuka | 13.33 |
| तुक | tuka | 8.33 |
| टुका | tuka | 6.67 |
| तुक्का | tukka | 1.67 |
| Tuka in the Georgian language | ||
| ტუკა | tuka | 66.67 |
| თუკა | tuka | 33.33 |
| Tuka in the Oriya language | ||
| ଟୁକା | tuka | 63.44 |
| ତୁକା | tuka | 16.13 |
| ଟୁକ | tuka | 12.9 |
| ଟୂକା | tuka | 7.53 |
| Tuka in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཏུ་ཀ་ | tuka | 37.5 |
| ཀྲུ་ཀ་ | truka | 37.5 |
| སྐྲུ་ཀ་ | truka | 18.75 |
| ཏུ་ཀུ་ | tuku | 6.25 |
| Tuka in the Russian language | ||
| Тука | tuka | - |
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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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- 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 Tuka
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