Gurung Surname

1,126th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 474,623 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nepal
Highest density in:
Bhutan

Gurung Surname User-submission:

The Gurung surname comes from the name of the Gurung tribe. The Gurungs, Rais, Magars and Limbus came from somewhere between Tibet, Bhutan and China. The word gurung is derived from the Tibetan word grong, which means 'farmer'.

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Gurung Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nepal297,4541:9616
India135,9541:5,642502
Bhutan16,5111:379
England4,1331:13,4811,989
Qatar3,7751:62533
United Arab Emirates3,3391:2,744347
Saudi Arabia1,8681:16,5182,266
United States1,7021:212,96120,789
Malaysia1,2371:23,8432,157
Brunei1,2361:33957
Macau1,2291:490101
Thailand1,0411:67,8568,729
Kuwait8871:4,285573
Hong Kong6891:10,647322
Australia5581:48,3796,037
Bahrain4261:3,166533
Spain3521:132,81810,077
Belgium2371:48,5097,894
Canada1771:208,16720,218
Singapore1501:36,7181,328
Germany1231:654,51651,119
Oman1101:33,5272,360
Japan1041:1,229,27222,213
Portugal1041:100,1754,850
Denmark861:65,6366,586
Indonesia851:1,555,873103,724
Iraq731:479,7498,022
France721:922,538106,020
Afghanistan611:527,1016,518
Iceland611:6,231702
New Zealand591:76,75111,256
Netherlands541:312,72536,782
Philippines511:1,985,063118,763
Wales491:63,1545,613
Papua New Guinea471:173,48324,058
Scotland471:113,9117,445
Finland361:152,68613,963
Sweden361:273,52118,976
South Korea341:1,507,066392
Norway311:165,88020,092
Seychelles291:3,186566
Switzerland261:315,88124,844
Ireland211:224,2358,707
Brazil211:10,194,016213,214
Luxembourg211:27,6454,917
Ecuador191:837,15013,424
China181:75,962,3094,162
Maldives151:26,9451,601
Northern Mariana Islands141:3,899389
Poland111:3,455,341126,214
Northern Ireland101:184,5049,341
Bangladesh91:17,706,30813,537
Puerto Rico91:394,4603,042
Sudan91:4,167,7995,799
Guam81:20,0153,029
Taiwan81:2,930,59317,989
American Samoa61:9,2931,961
Cyprus61:147,4798,354
Bermuda51:13,0561,849
Italy51:12,231,338126,430
Egypt41:22,983,93862,368
Israel41:2,139,40895,907
Laos41:1,647,081888
Libya41:1,560,9943,087
South Africa41:13,544,426222,367
Sri Lanka41:5,202,14012,146
Russia31:48,041,019639,186
Austria21:4,257,71899,224
Cayman Islands21:31,9461,715
Colombia21:23,887,03632,612
Greece21:5,539,895129,142
Kenya21:23,089,95083,168
Pakistan21:89,321,942157,560
Senegal21:7,289,6718,117
Serbia21:3,572,47432,645
Tanzania21:26,470,806111,653
Albania11:2,914,05529,474
Angola11:26,989,21411,853
Armenia11:2,930,18022,770
Belize11:355,4743,977
Bulgaria11:6,978,90586,260
Cambodia11:15,487,14614,824
Cape Verde11:529,6426,792
Chile11:17,616,47493,597
Costa Rica11:4,780,06913,345
Czechia11:10,633,469206,023
Equatorial Guinea11:1,135,674984
Fiji11:894,3914,568
Georgia11:3,745,54547,852
Gibraltar11:33,9541,660
Guatemala11:16,082,66812,169
Haiti11:10,683,90724,607
Ivory Coast11:23,071,23276,679
Jamaica11:2,869,94713,896
Lithuania11:3,034,58847,401
Madagascar11:23,649,8379,420
Mali11:16,969,0354,067
Mauritius11:1,293,41716,552
Mexico11:124,126,205103,776
Myanmar11:51,937,9852,166
Peru11:31,784,12364,452
Sierra Leone11:7,089,6311,533
Syria11:19,301,02222,457
Trinidad and Tobago11:1,363,97522,013
United States Virgin Islands11:110,3756,934
Vietnam11:92,646,0548,382

Gurung (1,655) may also be a first name.

Gurung Surname Meaning

User-submitted Reference

The Gurung surname comes from the name of the Gurung tribe. The Gurungs, Rais, Magars and Limbus came from somewhere between Tibet, Bhutan and China. The word gurung is derived from the Tibetan word grong, which means 'farmer'. Gurungs also go by Tamu, which means '10,000 battalions'.

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Gurung are mostly populated in Nepal, but their ancestry comes from the Mongol Empire. They are wandering tribes who traveled from Mongolia to China to Tibet to Nepal. Gurungs call themself Tamu, derived from Temujin, which was the original name of Mongolian emperor Genjhis Khan.

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Gurung Last Name Facts

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

The last name Gurung (Bengali: গুরুং, Hindi: गुरूंग, Marathi: गुरुंग, Oriya: ଗୁରୁ, Russian: Гурунг, Tibetan: གུ་རུང་།) is held by more people in Nepal than any other country or territory. It can occur as:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Gurung? popularity and diffusion

The surname Gurung is the 1,126th most widespread surname world-wide, held by around 1 in 15,354 people. This last name occurs mostly in Asia, where 98 percent of Gurung reside; 95 percent reside in South Asia and 91 percent reside in Indo-South Asia. Gurung is also the 189,342nd most frequent first name globally. It is borne by 1,655 people.

The last name Gurung is most widespread in Nepal, where it is carried by 297,454 people, or 1 in 96. In Nepal it is mostly concentrated in: Gandaki, where 50 percent are found, Lumbini, where 12 percent are found and Narayani, where 9 percent are found. Barring Nepal this surname occurs in 105 countries. It is also common in India, where 29 percent are found and Bhutan, where 3 percent are found.

Gurung Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those holding the Gurung surname are 14.43% more likely to be registered Democrats than The US average, with 67.66% being registered with the party.

The amount Gurung earn in different countries varies greatly. In Norway they earn 40.02% less than the national average, earning 207,587 kr per year; in Peru they earn 51.64% less than the national average, earning S/. 9,374 per year; in United States they earn 4.99% less than the national average, earning $40,994 USD per year and in Canada they earn 0.96% more than the national average, earning $50,158 CAD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Gurungg92180/
Ngurung9267/
Gutrung9254/
Gaurung9222/
Gurrung9219/
Gurunng9218/
Gurungh9217/
Guruing9210/
Guurung926/
Guruung926/
Gureung922/
Gourung922/
Ghurung922/
Guraung922/
Ggurung922/
Cgurung921/
Gurungk921/
Gurungq921/
Gurgung921/
Guroung921/
Gurun91240,100/
Urung91554/
Gurusing86120/
Guruting861/
Guttrung861/
Gurungne861/
Gurzun83587/
Gorung83314/
Gurunk83196/
Hurung83154/
Gurong83129/
Gaurun83128/
Gurgun8351/
Gurund8345/
Gurumg8318/
Gurhun8313/
Ngurun8313/
Gurune838/
Gurunn838/
Gurusn835/
Ghurun833/
Gurunc832/
Guurun832/
Girung832/
Gurujn831/
Aurung831/
Gurusingh8020/
Ngouroung801/
Guroong77654/
Heurung77298/
Gourong7759/
Gurunhe7758/
Guthrun7716/
Gurusin7714/
Goerung7712/
Gauruhn777/
Gurzong775/
Gouroun774/
Gurgaun772/
Gauroun771/
Guroune771/
Goorung771/
Gorun731,798/
Gurum731,440/
Guron731,014/
Orung73335/
Urong73321/
Urunc732/
Gourzong71275/
Goehrung7128/
Gutreund711/
Gourounk711/
Gurunova711/
Gauron67998/
Gouron67812/
Gorong67339/
Horung67114/
Guraum6762/
Goorun6758/
Gurrum6751/
Hurong6719/
Gurzon6711/
Orrung6710/
Guhron678/
Goroun676/
Oreung675/
Guroon674/
Ghuron672/
Oroung672/
Guðrún671/
Gurron671/
Guruuchin671/
Gorzun671/
Gourum671/
Gorhun671/
Gorujn671/
Guroum671/
Gujron670/
Gutrum670/
Guroen670/

Gurung Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Gurung in the Bengali language
গুরুংgurum96.45
গুরুঙ্গgurunga2.13
গুরুমguruma0.71
গুরূংgurum0.71
Gurung in the Oriya language
ଗୁରୁguru95.48
ଗୁରୁଙguruna1.29
ଟିୁଗୁରୁtiuguru0.65
ଗୁରୁୁguruu0.65
ଗୁରୁମguruma0.65
େତାଗୁରୁetaguru0.65
Gurung in the Tibetan language
གུ་རུང་།gurung91.7
གུ་རུང།gurung6.97
གུ་་རུང་།gurung0.38
གུ་རུང་gurung0.19
གུ་རང་།gurang0.13
གུ་རངུ་།gurangu0.11
ག་རུང་།garung0.08
ག་ུ་རུང་།garung0.08
གུ་རུང་།་gurung0.05
གི་རུང་།girung0.04
གུ་་རུང།gurung0.03
གུ་རིང་།guring0.03
རའི།0.02
གུརུང་།gurung0.02
གུ་མ་རི།gumari0.01
གུ་རུང་།་།gurung0.01
མཁན་འགྲོkhendro0.01
ག་ལེ།galé0.01
གུ་རིང།guring0.01
གུ་རིུང་།gurung0.01
གུུ་རུང་།gurung0.01
ག་ལེ་གུ་རུང།galégurung0.01
གུ་རུང།་gurung0.01
གུརུང།gurung0.01
ཀུ་རུང།kurung0.01
གུ་རུང་།།gurung0.01
མོང་གར།monggar0.01
གུ་རུ།guru0.01
གུ་ལུང་།gulung0.01
ཀུ་རུང་།kurung0.01
Gurung in the Hindi language
गुरूंगgurunga79.79
गुरुंगgurunga15.71
गुरंगguranga1.49
गुरूगguruga0.82
गुंरूगgunruga0.61
गुरूगंgurugam0.21
गुरुगguruga0.17
गुरूडguruda0.15
गुरूँगgurumga0.08
गुरूॅंगguruenga0.08
गुरूग्डgurugda0.06
गूरूंगgurunga0.06
गुरून्गgurun'ga0.06
गुंरूंगgunrunga0.04
गुरूंंगgurumnga0.04
गोरूंगgorunga0.04
गुंरुगgunruga0.04
गुरूंडgurunda0.04
गुंरगgunraga0.04
गंूरूगgamuruga0.04
गुॅरूंगguerunga0.02
गुरूडाguruda0.02
गुरंगाguranga0.02
गुरूंुगgurumuga0.02
गुरोंगguronga0.02
गूुरंगguuranga0.02
गुरुन्गgurun'ga0.02
गुय्ंगguynga0.02
गुरूंजgurunja0.02
गुरूागguruaga0.02
गूरुंगgurunga0.02
गंुरूगgamuruga0.02
Gurung in the Marathi language
गुरुंगgurunga76.91
गुरूंगgurunga15.36
गुरंगguranga3.46
गुरुगguruga1.42
गुरूनगgurunaga0.41
गुरुडguruda0.41
गुरगguraga0.2
गूंरगgunraga0.2
गुरुमguruma0.2
मुरूंगmurunga0.2
गुंरुगgunruga0.2
गुरूगguruga0.2
गौरांगgauranga0.2
गरुंगgarunga0.2
गुरूंग़gurunga0.2
गूरुंगgurunga0.2
Gurung in the Russian language
Гурунгgurung-

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