Watkar Surname
Approximately 490 people bear this surname
Watkar Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 479 | 1:1,601,389 | 59,000 |
| United Arab Emirates | 8 | 1:1,145,284 | 40,289 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
Watkar Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Watkar Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Watkar (Marathi: वाटकर) is more frequently found in India than any other country/territory. It can be found as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Watkar? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 625,459th most frequently used last name world-wide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 14,872,543 people. This surname is predominantly found in Asia, where 100 percent of Watkar reside; 98 percent reside in South Asia and 98 percent reside in Indo-South Asia.
The last name is most commonly occurring in India, where it is borne by 479 people, or 1 in 1,601,389. In India it is primarily found in: Maharashtra, where 95 percent reside, Karnataka, where 1 percent reside and Dadra and Nagar Haveli, where 0 percent reside. Apart from India this surname exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in The United Arab Emirates, where 2 percent reside and The United States, where 0 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Watkar Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Watkar in the Marathi language | ||
| वाटकर | vatakara | 86.35 |
| वातकर | vatakara | 4.43 |
| वटकर | vatakara | 3.32 |
| हटकर | hatakara | 1.11 |
| शंकर | sankara | 1.11 |
| भाकर | bhakara | 0.74 |
| बाटकर | batakara | 0.37 |
| वतकर | vatakara | 0.37 |
| नाकर | nakara | 0.37 |
| वाटेकर | vatekara | 0.37 |
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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 Watkar
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