Pooma Surname
Approximately 67 people bear this surname
Pooma Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lesotho | 22 | 1:92,389 | 10,629 |
| India | 12 | 1:63,922,115 | 578,870 |
| Uganda | 11 | 1:3,549,025 | 89,142 |
| Indonesia | 10 | 1:13,224,919 | 434,432 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 8 | 1:170,497 | 8,814 |
| Thailand | 4 | 1:17,659,586 | 685,799 |
Pooma (188) may also be a first name.
Pooma Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Pooma Come From? nationality or country of origin
Pooma (Hindi: पूमा) is most common in Lesotho. It may also appear in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Pooma? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 2,333,370th most frequently used surname on a global scale, borne by around 1 in 108,769,342 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 49 percent of Pooma live; 33 percent live in Southern Africa and 33 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 663,277th most widespread first name internationally It is held by 188 people.
The surname is most widespread in Lesotho, where it is borne by 22 people, or 1 in 92,389. In Lesotho Pooma is most frequent in: Qacha's Nek District, where 100 percent reside. Aside from Lesotho this surname is found in 5 countries. It is also found in India, where 18 percent reside and Uganda, where 16 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Pooma Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Pooma in the Hindi language | ||
| पूमा | puma | - |
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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 Pooma
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