Kunyan Surname

2,605,694th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 55 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Malaysia
Highest density in:
Malaysia

Kunyan Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Kunyan Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Malaysia441:670,32331,889
Indonesia41:33,062,298643,618
Thailand31:23,546,115908,588
United States21:181,229,4661,556,795
Russia11:144,123,056881,408
Taiwan11:23,444,74693,622
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States141:3,587,049158,810

Kunyan (18,268) may also be a first name.

Kunyan Last Name Facts

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

Kunyan (Hindi: कुन्यन, Russian: Кунян) occurs in Malaysia more than any other country/territory. It can occur as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Kunyan? popularity and diffusion

The surname Kunyan is the 2,605,694th most commonly occurring surname world-wide It is held by around 1 in 132,500,835 people. This surname is primarily found in Asia, where 95 percent of Kunyan live; 93 percent live in Southeast Asia and 87 percent live in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia. Kunyan is also the 40,389th most widely held forename throughout the world, held by 18,268 people.

The last name Kunyan is most common in Malaysia, where it is carried by 44 people, or 1 in 670,323. In Malaysia it is mostly concentrated in: Sarawak, where 84 percent reside, Negeri Sembilan, where 9 percent reside and Johor, where 2 percent reside. Excluding Malaysia this last name exists in 5 countries. It is also found in Indonesia, where 7 percent reside and Thailand, where 5 percent reside.

Kunyan Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The prevalency of Kunyan has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Kunyan surname contracted 86 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Phonetically Similar Names

Kunyan Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Kunyan in the Hindi language
कुन्यनkun'yana-
Kunyan in the Russian language
Кунянkunan-

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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 Kunyan
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