Turuya Surname
Approximately 332 people bear this surname
Turuya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 214 | 1:247,391 | 19,981 |
| Kenya | 114 | 1:405,087 | 22,588 |
| India | 3 | 1:255,688,461 | 1,306,352 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Turuya (13) may also be a first name.
Turuya Demographics
Turuya Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Turuya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Turuya Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Turuya is more commonly found in Tanzania than any other country or territory. It can also be found in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Turuya? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 832,284th most common family name worldwide It is held by around 1 in 21,950,440 people. It is predominantly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Turuya reside; 99 percent reside in East Africa and 64 percent reside in East Bantu Africa. Turuya is also the 3,159,357th most numerous first name throughout the world It is held by 13 people.
The last name Turuya is most commonly held in Tanzania, where it is borne by 214 people, or 1 in 247,391. In Tanzania it is mostly concentrated in: Mara Region, where 57 percent reside and Mwanza Region, where 43 percent reside. Aside from Tanzania Turuya exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in Kenya, where 34 percent reside and India, where 1 percent reside.
Turuya Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those holding the Turuya surname is predominantly Christian (100%) in Kenya.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Turuya
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