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
Turay Political Affiliation
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Turay Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Turay Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Turay (Hindi: तुराय, Marathi: तुराय, Russian: Турай) is found most frequently in Sierra Leone. It can occur in the variant forms: Türay. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Turay? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 3,143rd most frequently occurring surname on a worldwide basis, held by around 1 in 40,754 people. Turay is predominantly found in Africa, where 97 percent of Turay reside; 97 percent reside in West Africa and 95 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 227,458th most frequently occurring first name internationally, held by 1,212 people.
The surname is most commonly used in Sierra Leone, where it is carried by 169,309 people, or 1 in 42. Not including Sierra Leone Turay is found in 79 countries. It is also common in Liberia, where 1 percent reside and The United States, where 1 percent reside.
Turay Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States Turay are 41.95% more likely to be registered Democrats than The US 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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