Nums Surname
Approximately 44 people bear this surname
Nums Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Suriname | 32 | 1:17,269 | 4,028 |
| Netherlands | 9 | 1:1,876,353 | 85,467 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 30 | 1:1,673,956 | 87,330 |
Nums Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nums Come From? nationality or country of origin
Nums is found most frequently in Suriname. It may be found in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Nums? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 2,944,094th most widely held family name globally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 165,626,044 people. The surname occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 80 percent of Nums are found; 73 percent are found in South America and 73 percent are found in Gallo-Germanic South America.
The last name Nums is most common in Suriname, where it is borne by 32 people, or 1 in 17,269. Besides Suriname this last name is found in 3 countries. It is also common in The Netherlands, where 20 percent live and The United States, where 5 percent live.
Nums Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Nums has changed over time. In The United States the number of people bearing the Nums last name declined 93 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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 Nums
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