Butnam Surname
Approximately 280 people bear this surname
Butnam Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thailand | 278 | 1:254,095 | 43,200 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 13 | 1:3,862,976 | 168,604 |
Butnam Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Butnam Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Butnam has its highest incidence in Thailand. It can also be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Butnam? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 937,786th most widely held surname throughout the world It is held by around 1 in 26,026,950 people. The surname Butnam occurs predominantly in Asia, where 99 percent of Butnam reside; 99 percent reside in Southeast Asia and 99 percent reside in Tai-Asia.
The last name Butnam is most commonly used in Thailand, where it is held by 278 people, or 1 in 254,095. In Thailand Butnam is mostly concentrated in: Khon Kaen Province, where 73 percent reside, Kanchanaburi Province, where 21 percent reside and Bangkok, where 1 percent reside. Excluding Thailand this last name exists in one country. It also occurs in The United States, where 1 percent reside.
Butnam Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Butnam has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Butnam surname decreased 85 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Butnam
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