Turay Surname
Approximately 178,818 people bear this surname
Turay Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sierra Leone | 169,309 | 1:42 | 9 |
| Liberia | 2,319 | 1:1,901 | 253 |
| United States | 1,383 | 1:262,082 | 24,727 |
| Gambia | 1,323 | 1:1,454 | 186 |
| Turkey | 1,175 | 1:66,231 | 6,238 |
| Ghana | 1,108 | 1:24,387 | 2,946 |
| England | 712 | 1:78,256 | 8,781 |
| Philippines | 415 | 1:243,948 | 36,788 |
| Saudi Arabia | 159 | 1:194,062 | 29,524 |
| Morocco | 136 | 1:253,501 | 42,794 |
| Hungary | 93 | 1:105,551 | 10,142 |
| Canada | 73 | 1:504,734 | 42,927 |
| Netherlands | 55 | 1:307,040 | 36,360 |
| India | 44 | 1:17,433,304 | 271,013 |
| Germany | 43 | 1:1,872,220 | 105,027 |
| Sweden | 34 | 1:289,610 | 20,124 |
| Australia | 29 | 1:930,886 | 55,860 |
| Kuwait | 29 | 1:131,058 | 14,967 |
| Greece | 26 | 1:426,146 | 56,152 |
| Indonesia | 25 | 1:5,289,968 | 246,176 |
| Sudan | 25 | 1:1,500,408 | 3,610 |
| Czechia | 23 | 1:462,325 | 50,029 |
| Nigeria | 22 | 1:8,051,944 | 174,166 |
| Ivory Coast | 21 | 1:1,098,630 | 25,989 |
| Slovakia | 20 | 1:266,822 | 40,422 |
| Spain | 20 | 1:2,337,602 | 57,118 |
| Botswana | 17 | 1:128,643 | 18,229 |
| Iraq | 16 | 1:2,188,853 | 19,343 |
| Norway | 12 | 1:428,524 | 37,411 |
| Poland | 10 | 1:3,800,875 | 132,137 |
| Scotland | 9 | 1:594,869 | 21,724 |
| Lebanon | 9 | 1:626,343 | 14,059 |
| Belgium | 9 | 1:1,277,405 | 87,318 |
| Estonia | 8 | 1:165,226 | 26,217 |
| Argentina | 7 | 1:6,106,202 | 178,634 |
| China | 7 | 1:195,331,652 | 10,124 |
| United Arab Emirates | 6 | 1:1,527,046 | 51,993 |
| Guinea | 6 | 1:1,972,303 | 1,775 |
| France | 5 | 1:13,284,544 | 357,392 |
| Kazakhstan | 5 | 1:3,536,499 | 118,599 |
| Tunisia | 4 | 1:152,656 | 17,743 |
| Brazil | 4 | 1:53,518,583 | 632,670 |
| Somalia | 4 | 1:3,363,015 | 5,093 |
| Mali | 4 | 1:4,242,259 | 2,433 |
| Egypt | 4 | 1:22,983,938 | 62,368 |
| Thailand | 3 | 1:23,546,115 | 908,588 |
| Azerbaijan | 3 | 1:3,216,374 | 32,290 |
| Malaysia | 3 | 1:9,831,408 | 269,765 |
| Denmark | 3 | 1:1,881,572 | 67,227 |
| Senegal | 3 | 1:4,859,781 | 6,822 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| Venezuela | 2 | 1:15,102,038 | 69,873 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1:23,089,950 | 83,168 |
| Northern Cyprus | 2 | 1:159,506 | 9,062 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Jamaica | 1 | 1:2,869,947 | 13,896 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Libya | 1 | 1:6,243,974 | 6,186 |
| Lithuania | 1 | 1:3,034,588 | 47,401 |
| South Korea | 1 | 1:51,240,256 | 8,015 |
| Malawi | 1 | 1:17,119,109 | 34,144 |
| Malta | 1 | 1:430,272 | 3,380 |
| Monaco | 1 | 1:37,066 | 4,748 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1:15,905,846 | 50,210 |
| Namibia | 1 | 1:2,409,401 | 19,676 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Gibraltar | 1 | 1:33,954 | 1,660 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
The alternate forms: Türay (1) are calculated separately.
Turay (1,212) may also be a first name.
Turay Demographics
Average Male Turay Height
173.5 cm
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Turay Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Turay Come From? nationality or country of origin
Turay (Hindi: तुराय, Marathi: तुराय, Russian: Турай) occurs most in Sierra Leone. It may also appear as: Türay. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Turay? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 3,143rd most frequently used family name on a global scale, borne by approximately 1 in 40,754 people. Turay occurs predominantly in Africa, where 97 percent of Turay are found; 97 percent are found in West Africa and 95 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 227,458th most commonly used first name globally. It is borne by 1,212 people.
The last name is most frequently occurring in Sierra Leone, where it is carried by 169,309 people, or 1 in 42. Without taking into account Sierra Leone this last name is found in 79 countries. It is also found in Liberia, where 1 percent live and The United States, where 1 percent live.
Turay Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Turay surname are 41.95% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 95.18% registered with the political party.
The amount Turay earn in different countries varies notably. In Norway they earn 4.27% less than the national average, earning 331,294 kr per year; in United States they earn 0.73% more than the national average, earning $43,466 USD per year and in Canada they earn 18.9% less than the national average, earning $40,294 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Turay Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Turay in the Marathi language | ||
| तुराय | turaya | - |
| Turay in the Hindi language | ||
| तुराय | turaya | 25 |
| तुरया | turaya | 25 |
| तुरय | turaya | 25 |
| तूराय | turaya | 25 |
| Turay in the Russian language | ||
| Турай | turaj | - |
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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 Turay
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