Palumb Surname

4,908,606th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 16 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
United States

Palumb Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Palumb Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States151:24,163,929685,360
Russia11:144,123,056881,408

Palumb Last Name Facts

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

Palumb (Russian: Палумб) is found most in The United States. It may also occur as:. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Palumb? popularity and diffusion

It is the 4,908,606th most commonly occurring surname internationally, held by around 1 in 455,471,620 people. This surname occurs mostly in The Americas, where 94 percent of Palumb are found; 94 percent are found in North America and 94 percent are found in Anglo-North America.

The surname is most frequent in The United States, where it is carried by 15 people, or 1 in 24,163,929. In The United States Palumb is most common in: New York, where 93 percent are found and Rhode Island, where 7 percent are found. Besides The United States it exists in one country. It also occurs in Russia, where 6 percent are found.

Palumb Last Name Statistics demography

Palumb earn marginally less than the average income. In United States they earn 0.15% less than the national average, earning $43,083 USD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Palumbs921/
Palumw83210/
Polumb8373/
Palimb8312/
Palomb831/
Palumbová802/
Palunw67336/
Polimb6734/
Palunv671/
Phailimp576/

Palumb Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Palumb in the Russian language
Палумбpalumb-

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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 Palumb
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