Tuku Surname
Approximately 7,120 people bear this surname
Tuku Surname Definition:
“Earth Wolf” in Sesuto.
Tuku Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bangladesh | 1,622 | 1:98,247 | 4,266 |
| Nigeria | 1,209 | 1:146,520 | 9,326 |
| South Africa | 1,130 | 1:47,945 | 6,114 |
| DR Congo | 930 | 1:79,440 | 9,181 |
| Indonesia | 712 | 1:185,743 | 17,845 |
| Papua New Guinea | 467 | 1:17,460 | 1,759 |
| Albania | 230 | 1:12,670 | 2,333 |
| Zimbabwe | 201 | 1:76,807 | 11,322 |
| Cameroon | 195 | 1:106,508 | 12,495 |
| India | 82 | 1:9,354,456 | 185,501 |
| Solomon Islands | 54 | 1:10,741 | 1,884 |
| Liberia | 50 | 1:88,171 | 7,231 |
| Uganda | 47 | 1:830,623 | 38,869 |
| United States | 36 | 1:10,068,304 | 413,125 |
| Spain | 31 | 1:1,508,130 | 46,256 |
| Germany | 22 | 1:3,659,339 | 158,771 |
| Kenya | 18 | 1:2,565,550 | 37,160 |
| Tanzania | 11 | 1:4,812,874 | 55,358 |
| England | 9 | 1:6,190,895 | 170,599 |
| Sudan | 9 | 1:4,167,799 | 5,799 |
| Qatar | 9 | 1:262,000 | 30,726 |
| Vanuatu | 9 | 1:29,253 | 714 |
| Brazil | 5 | 1:42,814,866 | 547,158 |
| Sweden | 5 | 1:1,969,351 | 134,077 |
| Greece | 5 | 1:2,215,958 | 91,893 |
| Malaysia | 4 | 1:7,373,556 | 230,001 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 4 | 1:283,918 | 487 |
| Thailand | 2 | 1:35,319,172 | 966,191 |
| Tonga | 1 | 1:107,313 | 791 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 1 | 1:177,423 | 3,686 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| Botswana | 1 | 1:2,186,929 | 30,250 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
The alternate forms: Tükü (31) are calculated separately.
Tuku (17,540) may also be a first name.
Tuku Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
“Earth Wolf” in Sesuto.
Tuku Demographics
Average Tuku Salary in
United States
$31,382 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Tuku Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tuku Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Tuku (Bengali: টুকু, Hindi: टुकु, Marathi: तुकू, Oriya: ଟୁକୁ, Tibetan: ཏུ་ཀུ་) occurs more in Bangladesh more than any other country/territory. It may also be found in the variant forms: Tükü. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Tuku? popularity and diffusion
The surname Tuku is the 69,554th most frequently held surname internationally It is held by around 1 in 1,023,532 people. Tuku is primarily found in Africa, where 53 percent of Tuku are found; 24 percent are found in South Asia and 23 percent are found in Islamic South Asia. It is also the 41,578th most frequently occurring first name on earth. It is borne by 17,540 people.
Tuku is most frequently held in Bangladesh, where it is held by 1,622 people, or 1 in 98,247. Barring Bangladesh this surname is found in 39 countries. It is also common in Nigeria, where 17 percent are found and South Africa, where 16 percent are found.
Tuku Last Name Statistics demography
The amount Tuku earn in different countries varies notably. In South Africa they earn 46.29% less than the national average, earning R 127,632 per year and in United States they earn 27.27% less than the national average, earning $31,382 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Tuku Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Tuku in the Oriya language | ||
| ଟୁକୁ | tuku | 95.41 |
| ଟୂକୁ | tuku | 2.48 |
| ତୁକୁ | tuku | 0.18 |
| ଟିକୁ | tiku | 0.12 |
| ଟୁନୁ | tunu | 0.06 |
| ଟୁଟୁ | tutu | 0.06 |
| Tuku in the Bengali language | ||
| টুকু | tuku | 94.12 |
| তুকু | tuku | 5.88 |
| Tuku in the Hindi language | ||
| टुकु | tuku | 36 |
| टूकू | tuku | 28 |
| टुकू | tuku | 20 |
| तुकू | tuku | 8 |
| टूकु | tuku | 4 |
| टुकुआ | tuku'a | 4 |
| Tuku in the Marathi language | ||
| तुकू | tuku | 30.56 |
| टुकु | tuku | 25 |
| टुकू | tuku | 16.67 |
| टूकू | tuku | 13.89 |
| तुकु | tuku | 11.11 |
| टूकु | tuku | 2.78 |
| Tuku in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཏུ་ཀུ་ | tuku | 27.27 |
| ཀྲུ་ཀུ་ | truku | 22.73 |
| སྐྲུ་ཀུ་ | truku | 13.64 |
| ཏུ་སྐུ་ | tuku | 13.64 |
| ཏུ་ཀུ། | tuku | 13.64 |
| སྤྲུགས་སྐུ་ | trukku | 4.55 |
| ཏི་ཀུ་ | tiku | 4.55 |
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