Musung Surname
Approximately 1,440 people bear this surname
Musung Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 1,368 | 1:54,006 | 6,504 |
| Indonesia | 42 | 1:3,148,790 | 173,812 |
| Papua New Guinea | 10 | 1:815,372 | 88,623 |
| Tanzania | 9 | 1:5,882,401 | 60,754 |
| Kenya | 5 | 1:9,235,980 | 55,978 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Nepal | 1 | 1:28,480,956 | 22,413 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
The alternate forms: Mušung (2) are calculated separately.
Musung (131) may also be a first name.
Musung Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Musung Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Musung has its highest incidence in The DR Congo. It can occur as a variant: Mušung. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Musung? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 270,744th most frequent family name throughout the world. It is borne by around 1 in 5,060,796 people. The surname Musung is mostly found in Africa, where 96 percent of Musung are found; 95 percent are found in Central Africa and 95 percent are found in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 811,108th most prevalent first name internationally, held by 131 people.
This last name is most commonly occurring in The DR Congo, where it is carried by 1,368 people, or 1 in 54,006. Apart from The DR Congo it exists in 9 countries. It is also common in Indonesia, where 3 percent reside and Papua New Guinea, 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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Musung
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