Bünger Surname
Approximately 3,639 people bear this surname
Bünger Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 3,476 | 1:23,160 | 3,069 |
| Denmark | 55 | 1:102,631 | 9,658 |
| Sweden | 36 | 1:273,521 | 18,976 |
| Switzerland | 28 | 1:293,318 | 23,433 |
| South Africa | 19 | 1:2,851,458 | 109,033 |
| Austria | 6 | 1:1,419,239 | 86,529 |
| Norway | 5 | 1:1,028,457 | 61,363 |
| Brazil | 3 | 1:71,358,111 | 770,017 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| Italy | 2 | 1:30,578,344 | 160,757 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1:15,905,846 | 50,210 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Malawi | 1 | 1:17,119,109 | 34,144 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Slovakia | 1 | 1:5,336,450 | 140,422 |
The alternate forms: Bunger (3,260) & Buñger (1) are calculated separately.
Bünger Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bünger Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Bünger is most common in Germany. It can occur in the variant forms: Bunger or Buñger. Click here for further possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Bünger? popularity and diffusion
The last name Bünger is the 125,145th most frequently occurring family name globally It is held by around 1 in 2,002,623 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Europe, where 99 percent of Bünger are found; 96 percent are found in Western Europe and 96 percent are found in Germanic Europe.
The surname is most frequently held in Germany, where it is carried by 3,476 people, or 1 in 23,160. In Germany it is mostly found in: Lower Saxony, where 29 percent live, North Rhine-Westphalia, where 20 percent live and Schleswig-Holstein, where 11 percent live. Outside of Germany it occurs in 15 countries. It also occurs in Denmark, where 2 percent live and Sweden, where 1 percent live.
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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 Bünger
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