Gunasingham Surname

565,867th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 559 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Sri Lanka
Highest density in:
Sri Lanka

Gunasingham Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Gunasingham Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Sri Lanka4391:47,4005,492
Australia481:562,41041,290
Canada211:1,754,552114,935
England211:2,653,24194,788
Singapore131:423,66918,211
Denmark51:1,128,94352,970
Netherlands51:3,377,435111,911
Norway21:2,571,14395,402
United States21:181,229,4661,556,795
India11:767,065,3821,851,717
Switzerland11:8,212,915156,297
Wales11:3,094,53244,023

Gunasingham (13) may also be a first name.

Gunasingham Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Gunasingham Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Gunasingham is held by more people in Sri Lanka than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Gunasingham? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 565,867th most common family name on earth, borne by around 1 in 13,036,755 people. This surname occurs mostly in Asia, where 81 percent of Gunasingham reside; 79 percent reside in South Asia and 79 percent reside in Indo-South Asia. It is also the 3,159,357th most commonly used first name internationally, borne by 13 people.

The surname is most frequently held in Sri Lanka, where it is held by 439 people, or 1 in 47,400. Without taking into account Sri Lanka this surname occurs in 11 countries. It also occurs in Australia, where 9 percent live and Canada, where 4 percent live.

Gunasingham Last Name Statistics demography

Gunasingham earn marginally less than the average income. In Canada they earn 0.24% less than the national average, earning $49,562 CAD per year.

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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 Gunasingham
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