Posiunas Surname

7,593,402nd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 6 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Lithuania
Highest density in:
Lithuania

Posiunas Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Posiunas Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Lithuania41:758,64725,175
Australia11:26,995,701270,794
England11:55,718,059489,080

The alternate forms: Pošiūnas (147) are calculated separately.

Posiunas Last Name Facts

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

The last name Posiunas is more commonly found in Lithuania than any other country or territory. It can also appear in the variant forms: Pošiūnas. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Posiunas? popularity and diffusion

Posiunas is the 7,593,402nd most prevalent family name throughout the world It is held by approximately 1 in 1,214,590,986 people. Posiunas is primarily found in Europe, where 83 percent of Posiunas are found; 83 percent are found in Northern Europe and 67 percent are found in Baltic Europe.

The surname Posiunas is most commonly occurring in Lithuania, where it is carried by 4 people, or 1 in 758,647. In Lithuania it is most numerous in: Vilnius County, where 75 percent reside and Kaunas County, where 25 percent reside. Excluding Lithuania it occurs in 2 countries. It also occurs in Australia, where 17 percent reside and England, where 17 percent reside.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Pošiūnas92147/
Pociunas8830/
Pasiunas881/
Pasiuna802/
Pociūnas75199/
Paciunas7515/
Pociünas751/
Pasiugna751/
Patsyunas718/
Podchunas712/
Puošiūnas711/
Pašunas674/
Paciūnas6376/
Pašiūnas631/
Pasyuhyna5922/
Pošiūnaitė5644/
Pociūnaitė561/
Paceonea501/

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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 Posiunas
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