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 held by more people in Sri Lanka than any other country or territory. It may appear as:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gunatunga? popularity and diffusion
The surname Gunatunga is the 236,965th most frequently occurring last name at a global level, borne by approximately 1 in 4,299,437 people. The surname Gunatunga occurs mostly in Asia, where 95 percent of Gunatunga live; 95 percent live in South Asia and 95 percent live in Indo-South Asia.
It is most common in Sri Lanka, where it is held by 1,608 people, or 1 in 12,941. Not including Sri Lanka it exists in 8 countries. It is also found 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
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Gunatunga
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