Amuna Surname
Approximately 1,860 people bear this surname
Amuna Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 472 | 1:375,302 | 20,004 |
| DR Congo | 404 | 1:182,870 | 18,550 |
| Indonesia | 344 | 1:384,445 | 32,798 |
| Ghana | 277 | 1:97,548 | 9,187 |
| Papua New Guinea | 192 | 1:42,467 | 5,174 |
| Uganda | 107 | 1:364,853 | 23,632 |
| Ethiopia | 16 | 1:6,096,641 | 11,907 |
| Kenya | 11 | 1:4,198,173 | 41,178 |
| England | 9 | 1:6,190,895 | 170,599 |
| India | 8 | 1:95,883,173 | 728,828 |
| South Africa | 5 | 1:10,835,541 | 204,227 |
| Cameroon | 3 | 1:6,923,023 | 143,724 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Mozambique | 1 | 1:27,261,569 | 7,432 |
| Nepal | 1 | 1:28,480,956 | 22,413 |
| Malawi | 1 | 1:17,119,109 | 34,144 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
The alternate forms: Amuña (2) are calculated separately.
Amuna (3,297) may also be a first name.
Amuna Demographics
Amuna Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Amuna Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Amuna Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Amuna (Hindi: अमुना, Marathi: अमुना, Oriya: ଅମୁନା, Tibetan: ཨ་མུ་ན་) is borne by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It may also be found in the variant forms: Amuña. Click here for further possible spellings of Amuna.
How Common Is The Last Name Amuna? popularity and diffusion
Amuna is the 219,780th most commonly used last name internationally, held by around 1 in 3,918,035 people. The last name Amuna is mostly found in Africa, where 70 percent of Amuna are found; 40 percent are found in West Africa and 40 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 124,610th most common forename globally, held by 3,297 people.
The last name is most frequently occurring in Nigeria, where it is carried by 472 people, or 1 in 375,302. In Nigeria it is primarily found in: Bayelsa, where 34 percent live, Kogi, where 22 percent live and Plateau, where 13 percent live. Outside of Nigeria this last name occurs in 22 countries. It is also found in The DR Congo, where 22 percent live and Indonesia, where 18 percent live.
Amuna Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those carrying the Amuna last name is primarily Christian (67%) in Kenya.
Phonetically Similar Names
Amuna Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Amuna in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཨ་མུ་ན་ | amuna | - |
| Amuna in the Oriya language | ||
| ଅମୁନା | amuna | 96.77 |
| ଆମୁନା | amuna | 3.23 |
| Amuna in the Hindi language | ||
| अमुना | amuna | 47.83 |
| आमुना | amuna | 30.43 |
| अमूना | amuna | 11.59 |
| आमूना | amuna | 8.7 |
| जमुना | jamuna | 1.45 |
| Amuna in the Marathi language | ||
| अमुना | amuna | 37.5 |
| यमुना | yamuna | 18.75 |
| एमुना | emuna | 18.75 |
| आमुना | amuna | 12.5 |
| अमूना | amuna | 6.25 |
| ज़ामुना | zamuna | 6.25 |
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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 Amuna
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