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 surname Yaraj (Hindi: यराज, Marathi: यराज, Tibetan: ཡ་རཱཇ་) occurs in India more than any other country or territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Yaraj? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,573,888th most prevalent surname worldwide, held by approximately 1 in 56,058,046 people. The surname is mostly found in Asia, where 100 percent of Yaraj live; 99 percent live in South Asia and 95 percent live in Indo-South Asia. Yaraj is also the 701,320th most prevalent first name in the world, held by 170 people.
The surname is most frequently used in India, where it is borne by 125 people, or 1 in 6,136,523. In India Yaraj is most frequent in: Gujarat, where 56 percent reside, Tamil Nadu, where 41 percent reside and Bihar, where 1 percent reside. Beside India Yaraj occurs in 4 countries. It is also found in Iran, where 2 percent reside and Afghanistan, where 1 percent reside.
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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