Sanguna Surname
Approximately 242 people bear this surname
Sanguna Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecuador | 226 | 1:70,380 | 5,419 |
| India | 5 | 1:153,413,076 | 951,030 |
| Kenya | 4 | 1:11,544,975 | 62,419 |
| Chile | 3 | 1:5,872,158 | 52,204 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
The alternate forms: Sanguña (733) are calculated separately.
Sanguna (191) may also be a first name.
Sanguna Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sanguna Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Sanguna is carried by more people in Ecuador than any other country/territory. It can also appear as a variant: Sanguña. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Sanguna? popularity and diffusion
The last name Sanguna is the 1,038,570th most widely held family name in the world, borne by approximately 1 in 30,113,826 people. Sanguna occurs mostly in The Americas, where 95 percent of Sanguna are found; 95 percent are found in South America and 93 percent are found in Andean South America. It is also the 657,437th most common first name internationally. It is borne by 191 people.
Sanguna is most frequently occurring in Ecuador, where it is held by 226 people, or 1 in 70,380. In Ecuador Sanguna is mostly found in: Pichincha Province, where 97 percent reside, Guayas Province, where 1 percent reside and Bolívar Province, where 0 percent reside. Aside from Ecuador it occurs in 6 countries. It is also common in India, where 2 percent reside and Kenya, where 2 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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