Founa Surname
Approximately 298 people bear this surname
Founa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Congo | 113 | 1:44,151 | 4,164 |
| Niger | 61 | 1:314,623 | 9,328 |
| Cameroon | 57 | 1:364,370 | 32,302 |
| Burkina Faso | 44 | 1:417,093 | 6,319 |
| Tunisia | 4 | 1:152,656 | 17,743 |
| Chad | 4 | 1:3,398,050 | 7,703 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Mauritania | 3 | 1:1,364,954 | 27,355 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
Founa (603) may also be a first name.
Founa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Founa Come From? nationality or country of origin
Founa (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻓﻮﻧﻪ) is carried by more people in The Congo than any other country/territory. It may appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Founa click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Founa? popularity and diffusion
The last name Founa is the 897,852nd most frequently used last name worldwide. It is borne by around 1 in 24,454,852 people. The surname Founa is mostly found in Africa, where 97 percent of Founa live; 51 percent live in Central Africa and 50 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. Founa is also the 340,376th most numerous given name at a global level, held by 603 people.
The surname Founa is most commonly occurring in The Congo, where it is held by 113 people, or 1 in 44,151. In The Congo it is mostly found in: Brazzaville Department, where 86 percent reside, Cuvette-Ouest Department, where 8 percent reside and Pointe-Noire Department, where 4 percent reside. Without taking into account The Congo this surname occurs in 16 countries. It is also found in Niger, where 20 percent reside and Cameroon, where 19 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Founa Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Founa in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻓﻮﻧﻪ | fwnh | 66.67 |
| ﻓﻮﻥ | fwn | 33.33 |
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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 Founa
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