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 surname Tuku (Bengali: টুকু, Hindi: टुकु, Marathi: तुकू, Oriya: ଟୁକୁ, Tibetan: ཏུ་ཀུ་) is most common in Bangladesh. It can be rendered as: Tükü. For other possible spellings of Tuku click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Tuku? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 69,554th most frequently used last name worldwide, held by approximately 1 in 1,023,532 people. The surname Tuku is mostly found in Africa, where 53 percent of Tuku live; 24 percent live in South Asia and 23 percent live in Islamic South Asia. It is also the 41,578th most commonly occurring first name world-wide, borne by 17,540 people.
The last name is most frequently held in Bangladesh, where it is borne by 1,622 people, or 1 in 98,247. Excluding Bangladesh this last name occurs in 39 countries. It also occurs in Nigeria, where 17 percent reside and South Africa, where 16 percent reside.
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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