Subba Surname

4,901st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 115,297 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
India
Highest density in:
Bhutan

Subba Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Subba Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
India97,9031:7,835674
Nepal9,0581:3,144363
Bhutan5,9941:10319
United Arab Emirates4771:19,2082,258
Saudi Arabia2781:110,99214,774
Qatar2501:9,4321,032
Hong Kong2111:34,765608
United States1771:2,047,791130,814
Kuwait1351:28,1533,584
Bahrain1181:11,4292,102
England1131:493,08031,588
Italy891:687,15459,360
Malaysia661:446,88222,856
Australia451:599,90442,958
Canada381:969,62173,252
South Africa371:1,464,26276,407
Singapore341:161,9916,884
Belgium211:547,45951,586
Thailand201:3,531,917315,217
Suriname191:29,0855,642
Philippines181:5,624,346177,167
New Zealand181:251,57423,165
Zimbabwe151:1,029,21663,831
Oman141:263,4264,299
Netherlands121:1,407,26575,423
Denmark91:627,19136,734
Scotland81:669,22723,443
Estonia81:165,22626,217
Norway81:642,78647,258
Taiwan81:2,930,59317,989
Argentina71:6,106,202178,634
Pakistan71:25,520,55584,222
Germany51:16,101,092397,699
Poland51:7,601,750167,855
Iceland51:76,0184,442
Brunei51:83,7461,811
Afghanistan41:8,038,29630,874
Sri Lanka41:5,202,14012,146
Ireland31:1,569,64617,286
Puerto Rico31:1,183,3805,289
Indonesia31:44,083,065698,220
Sweden31:3,282,252190,759
Uganda31:13,013,093160,157
Switzerland31:2,737,638105,941
Brazil31:71,358,111770,017
Tanzania31:17,647,204107,932
Israel21:4,278,817136,311
Vietnam21:46,323,0275,235
Maldives21:202,0864,973
Russia21:72,061,528727,117
Finland21:2,748,35172,663
France21:33,211,361423,184
South Korea21:25,620,1284,175
Mauritius11:1,293,41716,552
Ukraine11:45,522,696503,646
Wales11:3,094,53244,023
Papua New Guinea11:8,153,717181,784
Nigeria11:177,142,758748,972
Myanmar11:51,937,9852,166
Malta11:430,2723,380
Lebanon11:5,637,08332,436
Japan11:127,844,29373,547
Iraq11:35,021,65431,813
Ethiopia11:97,546,26229,669
Egypt11:91,935,754132,737
Cyprus11:884,87613,055
Bangladesh11:159,356,77326,077
Algeria11:38,631,551130,422
Northern Ireland11:1,845,03620,648
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States11:50,218,684817,899

Subba (62,164) may also be a first name.

Subba Last Name Facts

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

The last name Subba (Bengali: সুব্বা, Hindi: सुब्बा, Marathi: सुबा, Oriya: ସୁା, Russian: Субьба, Tibetan: སུ་བྷ།) has its highest incidence in India. It can also appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Subba click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Subba? popularity and diffusion

The last name Subba is the 4,901st most common family name on a global scale, borne by approximately 1 in 63,207 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Asia, where 99 percent of Subba reside; 98 percent reside in South Asia and 93 percent reside in Indo-South Asia. It is also the 15,411th most commonly held first name in the world, held by 62,164 people.

The surname Subba is most prevalent in India, where it is held by 97,903 people, or 1 in 7,835. In India it is most prevalent in: West Bengal, where 52 percent are found, Sikkim, where 34 percent are found and Assam, where 9 percent are found. Apart from India this surname occurs in 68 countries. It is also common in Nepal, where 8 percent are found and Bhutan, where 5 percent are found.

Subba Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The frequency of Subba has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the surname grew 17,700 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Subba Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those holding the Subba last name are 23.69% more likely to be registered Democrats than The US average, with 76.92% registered with the party.

The amount Subba earn in different countries varies greatly. In Norway they earn 3.16% more than the national average, earning 357,008 kr per year; in South Africa they earn 375.63% more than the national average, earning R 1,130,280 per year; in United States they earn 1.85% less than the national average, earning $42,350 USD per year and in Canada they earn 11.33% less than the national average, earning $44,054 CAD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Shubba91163/
Subbha9183/
Subbay9119/
Subbai9113/
Subbaa918/
Suibba917/
Soubba917/
Subbas914/
Scubba912/
Jsubba911/
Subbad911/
Subbau911/
Subhba911/
Siubba911/
Sgubba911/
Subbaya8390/
Subbaih8344/
Subbach8335/
Subbahe8312/
Subbaia839/
Scuibba837/
Subbapp833/
Subhbai833/
Subbajh831/
Subbash831/
Subhbha831/
Subbhai831/
Subbhah831/
Subwa801,609/
Sobba80469/
Subua80237/
Suvba80209/
Subbi80204/
Cubba80158/
Subbe8092/
Zubba8073/
Subbo8066/
Subby8042/
Jubba8028/
Suwba803/
Subva801/
Subbot73919/
Sgubbi73505/
Joubba73205/
Chubba73200/
Shibba73154/
Subbhi73133/
Subber7377/
Subuea7339/
Subboo7332/
Subbie7330/
Shubbo7327/
Subbio7323/
Shubbe7317/
Subway7316/
Giubba7315/
Subbih7313/
Shubva7313/
Suubwa739/
Subbey738/
Jubbad738/
Ssubwa738/
Subwai737/
Subbeh736/
Shobba735/
Soubbo733/
Shubby732/
Zubbah732/
Ssubbi732/
Soubbe732/
Djubba732/
Zubbas731/
Scibba731/
Shubbi731/
Suvbai731/
Subbed731/
Juibba731/
Suiwba731/
Zhubba731/
Sobbai731/
Seubbi731/
Subbes731/
Shubua731/
Souwba731/
Ssibba731/
Saubbi731/
Suubbi731/
Suubua731/
Cubbah731/
Zubbai731/
Suibua731/
Subuah731/
Subbhy731/
Cubbay730/
Schubbach7156/
Shubber671,030/
Schubbe67497/
Shubbie6726/
Jaubbad6713/
Subboch6711/
Shobbah679/
Sheubua679/
Schibba679/
Chubbah677/
Subuhat674/
Subways673/
Shobbai673/
Soubbou673/
Sutbbee672/
Shuibua672/
Djoubba672/
Jubbath671/
Subuhaa671/
Subbeer671/
Subbesh671/
Subbidd671/
Subbieh671/
Suiweba671/
Soubbot671/
Choubba671/
Chubbat671/
Subbish671/
Seubwai671/
Subboot671/

Subba Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Subba in the Bengali language
সুব্বাsubba-
Subba in the Hindi language
सुब्बाsubba76.1
सुब़्बाsubaba21.87
सूब्बाsubba1.3
सूब़्बाsubaba0.42
सुबबाsubaba0.1
सुब्बsubba0.05
सुबाsuba0.05
सुब़्बाsubaba0.05
Subba in the Tibetan language
སུ་བྷ།subha50.66
སུ་བ།suwa36.5
སུ་བཱ།suba6.77
སུབ་བ།subwa5.29
སུ་བྷ་།subha0.1
སུ་བ།།suwa0.08
སུ་བ་།suwa0.08
སུ་བ་suwa0.05
སུ་བsuwa0.05
སུ་བྷ་subha0.05
སུ་བྷ༑subha0.03
སི་བ།siwa0.03
སུ་བཱ་suba0.03
སུབ་བཱ།subba0.03
ས་ུ་བ།saba0.03
སུབ་བ།།subwa0.03
སུ་པྷ།supha0.03
ཧུ་བྷ།hubha0.03
ལིམ་བུ་སུ་བ།limbusuwa0.03
སུ་་བྷ།subha0.03
སུབྷ།subha0.03
བུ་བ།buwa0.03
སུ་མ།suma0.03
སི་བྷ།sibha0.03
སུབ་བྷ།subbha0.03
Subba in the Marathi language
सुबाsuba40
सुबबाsubaba33.33
सुभाsubha26.67
Subba in the Oriya language
ସୁାsua25
ସୁବାରାଓsubara'o25
ସୁବାsuba25
ଶୁବାsuba25
Subba in the Russian language
Субьбаsubba-

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