Bamuna Surname
Approximately 1,608 people bear this surname
Bamuna Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 1,519 | 1:48,637 | 5,886 |
| Papua New Guinea | 75 | 1:108,716 | 14,715 |
| Indonesia | 6 | 1:22,041,532 | 555,748 |
| India | 4 | 1:191,766,346 | 1,073,940 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
Bamuna (43) may also be a first name.
Bamuna Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bamuna Come From? nationality or country of origin
Bamuna (Oriya: ବାମୁଣା) is found most in The DR Congo. It can occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of Bamuna.
How Common Is The Last Name Bamuna? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 247,354th most common surname on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 4,532,056 people. The surname Bamuna occurs predominantly in Africa, where 95 percent of Bamuna are found; 94 percent are found in Central Africa and 94 percent are found in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,545,828th most frequently occurring first name internationally, borne by 43 people.
The last name is most widely held in The DR Congo, where it is borne by 1,519 people, or 1 in 48,637. Other than The DR Congo this last name exists in 6 countries. It is also common in Papua New Guinea, where 5 percent reside and Indonesia, where 0 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Bamuna Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Bamuna in the Oriya language | ||
| ବାମୁଣା | bamuna | - |
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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 Bamuna
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