Zarai Surname
Approximately 1,091 people bear this surname
Zarai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morocco | 443 | 1:77,824 | 13,257 |
| Algeria | 308 | 1:125,427 | 17,359 |
| Pakistan | 150 | 1:1,190,959 | 14,323 |
| Tunisia | 48 | 1:12,721 | 2,096 |
| Niger | 30 | 1:639,734 | 15,675 |
| Malaysia | 21 | 1:1,404,487 | 59,312 |
| Nigeria | 17 | 1:10,420,162 | 203,261 |
| Indonesia | 12 | 1:11,020,766 | 390,383 |
| Sweden | 9 | 1:1,094,084 | 81,336 |
| United States | 7 | 1:51,779,848 | 968,877 |
| Finland | 6 | 1:916,117 | 41,832 |
| Qatar | 6 | 1:393,000 | 55,922 |
| France | 5 | 1:13,284,544 | 357,392 |
| Kuwait | 4 | 1:950,174 | 18,811 |
| Singapore | 4 | 1:1,376,926 | 28,409 |
| Guinea | 4 | 1:2,958,454 | 2,022 |
| Italy | 3 | 1:20,385,563 | 143,117 |
| Afghanistan | 2 | 1:16,076,592 | 43,178 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Angola | 1 | 1:26,989,214 | 11,853 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
The alternate forms: Zárai (91) are calculated separately.
Zarai (10,756) may also be a first name.
Zarai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Zarai Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Zarai is found most in Morocco. It may also be rendered as: Zárai. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Zarai? popularity and diffusion
It is the 337,484th most commonly used family name in the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 6,679,694 people. The surname Zarai occurs predominantly in Africa, where 78 percent of Zarai are found; 73 percent are found in North Africa and 73 percent are found in Mahgreb. It is also the 58,366th most commonly used given name globally, held by 10,756 people.
This surname is most common in Morocco, where it is carried by 443 people, or 1 in 77,824. Apart from Morocco this last name occurs in 29 countries. It is also found in Algeria, where 28 percent live and Pakistan, where 14 percent live.
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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 Zarai
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