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
Polume has its highest incidence in Papua New Guinea. It may also be found as:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Polume? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,943,350th most numerous family name worldwide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 79,212,456 people. Polume occurs predominantly in Oceania, where 92 percent of Polume are found; 87 percent are found in Oceania Islands and 87 percent are found in Papuan Oceania. Polume is also the 2,239,265th most widely held first name throughout the world. It is borne by 23 people.
This surname is most frequently used in Papua New Guinea, where it is held by 80 people, or 1 in 101,921. In Papua New Guinea Polume is primarily concentrated in: Manus, where 40 percent live, National Capital District, where 21 percent live and Northern, where 14 percent live. Other than Papua New Guinea this last name occurs 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
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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 Polume
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