Pulumo Surname

469,321st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 716 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
South Africa
Highest density in:
Lesotho

Pulumo Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Pulumo Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
South Africa4111:131,81915,401
Lesotho2951:6,8901,469
Papua New Guinea61:1,358,953118,663
United States31:120,819,6441,331,040
England11:55,718,059489,080

Pulumo (290) may also be a first name.

Pulumo Last Name Facts

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

The last name Pulumo (Tibetan: སྤུ་ལུ་མོ།) is found in South Africa more than any other country/territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Pulumo? popularity and diffusion

The last name Pulumo is the 469,321st most commonly used family name internationally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 10,178,137 people. Pulumo occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Pulumo live; 99 percent live in Southern Africa and 99 percent live in South Bantu Africa. Pulumo is also the 518,802nd most numerous first name globally, borne by 290 people.

The last name Pulumo is most prevalent in South Africa, where it is held by 411 people, or 1 in 131,819. In South Africa it is mostly found in: Free State, where 57 percent live, Gauteng, where 34 percent live and Eastern Cape, where 5 percent live. Outside of South Africa this last name occurs in 4 countries. It is also common in Lesotho, where 41 percent live and Papua New Guinea, where 1 percent live.

Pulumo Last Name Statistics demography

Pulumo earn significantly less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 26.72% less than the national average, earning R 174,132 per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Phulumo922/
Puluumo921/
Puluma83188/
Polumo8310/
Pulomo832/
Pulimo831/
Pulguma7735/
Paulomo778/
Pauluma778/
Paulimo775/
Phuluma771/
Paulusma71778/
Paulumah713/
Poulouma711/
Pilimo67377/
Polomo6764/
Poluma6727/
Pulima6718/
Puloma6715/
Paulima62163/
Philimo6228/
Pauloma629/
Puiloma622/
Polouma621/
Pilimou621/
Polumah621/
Pollumaa572/
Paulomaa571/
Paulomah571/
Poloma50358/
Pilima50175/

Pulumo Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Pulumo in the Tibetan language
སྤུ་ལུ་མོ།pulumo60
ཕུ་ལུ་མོ།pulumo20
པུ་ལུ་མོ།pulumo20

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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
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  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Pulumo
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