Yaraj Surname
Approximately 130 people bear this surname
Yaraj Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 125 | 1:6,136,523 | 142,720 |
| Iran | 2 | 1:38,391,262 | 236,033 |
| Afghanistan | 1 | 1:32,153,183 | 60,828 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
Yaraj (170) may also be a first name.
Yaraj Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yaraj Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Yaraj (Hindi: यराज, Marathi: यराज, Tibetan: ཡ་རཱཇ་) occurs in India more than any other country/territory. It may be rendered as:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Yaraj? popularity and diffusion
The surname Yaraj is the 1,573,888th most commonly occurring family name on earth, held by around 1 in 56,058,046 people. This last name is predominantly found in Asia, where 100 percent of Yaraj are found; 99 percent are found in South Asia and 95 percent are found in Indo-South Asia. Yaraj is also the 701,320th most prevalent first name at a global level, borne by 170 people.
The last name Yaraj is most common in India, where it is borne by 125 people, or 1 in 6,136,523. In India it is mostly concentrated in: Gujarat, where 56 percent live, Tamil Nadu, where 41 percent live and Bihar, where 1 percent live. Without taking into account India it occurs in 4 countries. It also occurs in Iran, where 2 percent live and Afghanistan, where 1 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yaraj Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yaraj in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཡ་རཱཇ་ | yaraja | - |
| Yaraj in the Marathi language | ||
| यराज | yaraja | - |
| Yaraj in the Hindi language | ||
| यराज | yaraja | 40 |
| ज़यराज | zayaraja | 40 |
| यारज | yaraja | 20 |
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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 Yaraj
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