Buniya Surname
Approximately 326 people bear this surname
Buniya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 205 | 1:864,111 | 37,851 |
| India | 106 | 1:7,236,466 | 158,262 |
| Uganda | 5 | 1:7,807,856 | 134,263 |
| United Arab Emirates | 4 | 1:2,290,568 | 60,372 |
| Brazil | 3 | 1:71,358,111 | 770,017 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Jordan | 1 | 1:8,842,437 | 26,010 |
| Mongolia | 1 | 1:2,825,289 | 17,010 |
Buniya (4,411) may also be a first name.
Buniya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Buniya Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Buniya (Bengali: বুনিয়া, Hindi: बुनिया, Marathi: बुिनया, Oriya: ବୁନିୟା) is found most frequently in Nigeria. It can appear as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Buniya? popularity and diffusion
The surname Buniya is the 842,714th most common last name globally, held by approximately 1 in 22,354,435 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 64 percent of Buniya are found; 63 percent are found in West Africa and 63 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Buniya is also the 103,798th most frequent given name on earth, borne by 4,411 people.
This last name is most frequent in Nigeria, where it is carried by 205 people, or 1 in 864,111. In Nigeria Buniya is mostly concentrated in: Jigawa, where 54 percent reside, Yobe, where 19 percent reside and Kano, where 11 percent reside. Not including Nigeria it occurs in 7 countries. It is also common in India, where 33 percent reside and Uganda, where 2 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Buniya Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Buniya in the Bengali language | ||
| বুনিয়া | buniya | - |
| Buniya in the Oriya language | ||
| ବୁନିୟା | buniya | - |
| Buniya in the Hindi language | ||
| बुनिया | buniya | 93.53 |
| बुनीया | buniya | 3.86 |
| बूनिया | buniya | 2.09 |
| बूनीया | buniya | 0.31 |
| बुनिय | buniya | 0.1 |
| बुनियाद | buniyada | 0.1 |
| Buniya in the Marathi language | ||
| बुिनया | buinaya | 83.33 |
| बुनीया | buniya | 16.67 |
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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 Buniya
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