Family name Orava (Orava 
) , globally, is quite a rare surname. The last name Orava is habitual in Finland, where it is quite a common surname, Czechia, where it is quite a rare surname, and Estonia. Measured by absolute frequency, it is the most numerous in Finland, Czechia, and Sweden. Very seldom, Orava is the forename as well as the last name.
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| Orava | Canada, Czechia, Sweden, United States, Finland |
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sakari orava Finnish sports medicine surgeon, physician and orthopedist, FI (b. 1945) |
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| veli orava Finnish entrepreneur and industrialist, FI (b. 1912) |
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| miroslav orava CZ (b. 1941) |
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| taryn orava researcher (ORCID 0000-0003-2888-6360) |
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| risto olavi orava Finnish particle physicist |
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| jiri orava researcher |
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| jussi orava Ph.D. |
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| aki orava Finnish pesäpallo player, FI (b. 1983) |
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| camilla orava |
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| raimo orava FI |
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| jakub orava CZ |
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| jan orava (b. 1984) |
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| carly orava CA (b. 1988) |
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