Plums Surname

3,485,539th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 32 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Latvia
Highest density in:
Latvia

Plums Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Plums Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Latvia191:107,89715,192
United States31:120,819,6441,331,040
England21:27,859,030389,889
Russia21:72,061,528727,117
China11:1,367,321,56651,149
New Zealand11:4,528,32355,372
Philippines11:101,238,223404,861
Poland11:38,008,749231,653
Scotland11:5,353,81763,002
South Africa11:54,177,704343,732
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England21:12,187,685173,419
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States91:5,579,854232,921

Plums Last Name Facts

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

The surname Plums (Arabic: بلمص) is borne by more people in Latvia than any other country or territory. It may be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of Plums click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Plums? popularity and diffusion

It is the 3,485,539th most commonly used family name internationally, held by around 1 in 227,735,810 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Europe, where 78 percent of Plums reside; 69 percent reside in Northern Europe and 59 percent reside in Baltic Europe.

The surname is most commonly held in Latvia, where it is carried by 19 people, or 1 in 107,897. In Latvia it is mostly concentrated in: Riga Planning Region, where 95 percent are found and Semigallia, where 5 percent are found. Barring Latvia it is found in 9 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 9 percent are found and England, where 6 percent are found.

Plums Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The prevalency of Plums has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Plums last name contracted 67 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Pluyms918/
Pluims911/
Plumms910/
Pluijms8362/
Pluns8082/
Plomås735/
Ploems731/
Pliuns731/
Plimms730/
Plehuns671/
Plusins671/
Pleutins621/
Plunz6066/
Plons6030/
Plunx601/
Plimz601/
Plunze5517/
Ploens557/
Plunce552/
Pillons50111/
Plaunch503/

Plums Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Plums in the Arabic language
بلمصblms-

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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 Plums
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