Puneni Surname

889,654th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 302 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nepal
Highest density in:
Nepal

Puneni Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Puneni Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nepal2681:106,2722,165
India191:40,371,862445,856
Papua New Guinea151:543,58166,712

Puneni (22) may also be a first name.

Puneni Last Name Facts

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

The surname Puneni (Hindi: पूनेनी, Oriya: ପୁେନଁଇ) is most common in Nepal. It may occur in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Puneni? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 889,654th most frequently used surname internationally. It is borne by around 1 in 24,130,947 people. The last name occurs mostly in Asia, where 95 percent of Puneni live; 95 percent live in South Asia and 95 percent live in Indo-South Asia. It is also the 2,301,746th most commonly occurring first name throughout the world. It is borne by 22 people.

This last name is most frequently occurring in Nepal, where it is borne by 268 people, or 1 in 106,272. In Nepal it is primarily concentrated in: Rapti, where 91 percent are found, Bheri, where 8 percent are found and Lumbini, where 1 percent are found. Excluding Nepal this last name exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in India, where 6 percent are found and Papua New Guinea, where 5 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Pusneni9210/
Punini83103/
Punena8325/
Punene8317/
Putimneni803/
Phunena774/
Punaini773/
Puniene772/
Puunenä771/
Punyoni771/
Puinene771/
Punine678/
Puniņa671/
Phonene6230/
Ponnena623/
Pauniņa623/
Ponneny621/
Punojna621/
Phunine621/
Paunine621/
Poneena621/
Poneina620/
Ponninhi5710/
Phonjnoi571/
Punnojna571/
Pumnynets531/
Ponnahaina501/

Puneni Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Puneni in the Oriya language
ପୁେନଁଇpuenami-
Puneni in the Hindi language
पूनेनीpuneni50
पुनेनीpuneni50

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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 Puneni
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