Ranasuriya Surname
Approximately 594 people bear this surname
Ranasuriya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sri Lanka | 585 | 1:35,570 | 4,375 |
| Canada | 4 | 1:9,211,398 | 321,528 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
Ranasuriya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ranasuriya Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Ranasuriya occurs most in Sri Lanka. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Ranasuriya? popularity and diffusion
The last name Ranasuriya is the 540,721st most frequently held family name world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 12,268,596 people. The surname Ranasuriya occurs predominantly in Asia, where 99 percent of Ranasuriya are found; 98 percent are found in South Asia and 98 percent are found in Indo-South Asia.
The last name is most common in Sri Lanka, where it is held by 585 people, or 1 in 35,570. Apart from Sri Lanka it exists in 4 countries. It is also found in Canada, where 1 percent reside and The United States, where 1 percent reside.
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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
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