Polume Surname
Approximately 92 people bear this surname
Polume Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 80 | 1:101,921 | 13,735 |
| Australia | 5 | 1:5,399,140 | 162,351 |
| Indonesia | 4 | 1:33,062,298 | 643,618 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
Polume (23) may also be a first name.
Polume Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Polume Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Polume is more frequently found in Papua New Guinea than any other country or territory. It may also be found in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of Polume.
How Common Is The Last Name Polume? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,943,350th most numerous last name globally It is held by around 1 in 79,212,456 people. This surname occurs mostly in Oceania, where 92 percent of Polume reside; 87 percent reside in Oceania Islands and 87 percent reside in Papuan Oceania. Polume is also the 2,239,265th most commonly occurring first name throughout the world, held by 23 people.
The last name is most commonly used in Papua New Guinea, where it is held by 80 people, or 1 in 101,921. In Papua New Guinea it is mostly concentrated in: Manus, where 40 percent live, National Capital District, where 21 percent live and Northern, where 14 percent live. Aside from Papua New Guinea Polume exists in 4 countries. It is also common in Australia, where 5 percent live and Indonesia, where 4 percent live.
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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 Polume
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