Gunatunga Surname
Approximately 1,695 people bear this surname
Gunatunga Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sri Lanka | 1,608 | 1:12,941 | 1,861 |
| England | 47 | 1:1,185,491 | 55,443 |
| New Zealand | 22 | 1:205,833 | 20,770 |
| Qatar | 9 | 1:262,000 | 30,726 |
| Australia | 5 | 1:5,399,140 | 162,351 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
Gunatunga Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gunatunga Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gunatunga is carried by more people in Sri Lanka than any other country/territory. It can be found as:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gunatunga? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 236,965th most frequently held family name on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 4,299,437 people. The surname occurs mostly in Asia, where 95 percent of Gunatunga are found; 95 percent are found in South Asia and 95 percent are found in Indo-South Asia.
The last name Gunatunga is most prevalent in Sri Lanka, where it is borne by 1,608 people, or 1 in 12,941. Barring Sri Lanka this surname occurs in 8 countries. It also occurs in England, where 3 percent reside and New Zealand, where 1 percent reside.
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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
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