Fuma Surname
Approximately 2,625 people bear this surname
Fuma Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 1,135 | 1:47,734 | 6,087 |
| DR Congo | 369 | 1:200,216 | 19,970 |
| Lesotho | 241 | 1:8,434 | 1,892 |
| Uganda | 160 | 1:243,995 | 18,277 |
| Zimbabwe | 146 | 1:105,741 | 14,710 |
| Namibia | 105 | 1:22,947 | 3,863 |
| Brazil | 95 | 1:2,253,414 | 69,998 |
| Argentina | 86 | 1:497,016 | 36,727 |
| Japan | 71 | 1:1,800,624 | 26,471 |
| Cameroon | 38 | 1:546,554 | 42,843 |
| Papua New Guinea | 28 | 1:291,204 | 39,406 |
| Nigeria | 24 | 1:7,380,948 | 165,663 |
| Russia | 23 | 1:6,266,220 | 254,708 |
| United States | 19 | 1:19,076,786 | 604,894 |
| Angola | 16 | 1:1,686,826 | 3,823 |
| Thailand | 9 | 1:7,848,705 | 447,191 |
| Indonesia | 8 | 1:16,531,149 | 488,268 |
| Italy | 7 | 1:8,736,670 | 118,213 |
| France | 7 | 1:9,488,960 | 336,266 |
| Venezuela | 5 | 1:6,040,815 | 47,898 |
| Taiwan | 5 | 1:4,688,949 | 27,695 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 1:4,106,458 | 122,336 |
| Croatia | 1 | 1:4,228,604 | 99,289 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Slovenia | 1 | 1:2,487,675 | 31,128 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Dominican Republic | 1 | 1:10,432,932 | 36,508 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| El Salvador | 1 | 1:6,343,888 | 8,415 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
Fuma (4,216) may also be a first name.
Fuma Demographics
Average Fuma Salary in
United States
$41,422 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Fuma Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Fuma Come From? nationality or country of origin
Fuma (Arabic: فوما, Hindi: फूमा, Russian: Фума, Tibetan: ཕུ་མ་) is held by more people in South Africa than any other country/territory. It can also appear as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Fuma? popularity and diffusion
Fuma is the 165,072nd most frequently occurring family name on a worldwide basis, borne by approximately 1 in 2,776,208 people. The last name Fuma occurs mostly in Africa, where 85 percent of Fuma live; 63 percent live in Southern Africa and 62 percent live in South Bantu Africa. Fuma is also the 106,853rd most commonly occurring first name on earth. It is borne by 4,216 people.
The surname Fuma is most prevalent in South Africa, where it is borne by 1,135 people, or 1 in 47,734. In South Africa it is most frequent in: Eastern Cape, where 64 percent live, Western Cape, where 18 percent live and Gauteng, where 10 percent live. Besides South Africa this last name exists in 45 countries. It is also common in The DR Congo, where 14 percent live and Lesotho, where 9 percent live.
Fuma Last Name Statistics demography
The amount Fuma earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 56.62% less than the national average, earning R 103,080 per year and in United States they earn 4% less than the national average, earning $41,422 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Fuma Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Fuma in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཕུ་མ་ | puma | - |
| Fuma in the Hindi language | ||
| फूमा | phuma | 81.16 |
| फुमा | phuma | 18.84 |
| Fuma in the Russian language | ||
| Фума | fuma | - |
| Fuma in the Arabic language | ||
| فوما | fwma | - |
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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 Fuma
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