Sultanah Surname

385,006th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 923 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Pakistan
Highest density in:
Lebanon

Sultanah Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Sultanah Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Pakistan6901:258,9045,769
Indonesia1101:1,202,26584,863
Lebanon771:73,2095,130
England111:5,065,278148,650
Bangladesh91:17,706,30813,537
United Arab Emirates81:1,145,28440,289
Egypt41:22,983,93862,368
Singapore41:1,376,92628,409
Syria31:6,433,67416,197
India21:383,532,6911,645,216
Iran21:38,391,262236,033
Malaysia11:29,494,225409,885
Sweden11:9,846,757347,448
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Sultanah (1,518) may also be a first name.

Sultanah Last Name Facts

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

Sultanah (Marathi: सुलतानअह) occurs most in Pakistan. It may be found as a variant:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Sultanah? popularity and diffusion

The surname Sultanah is the 385,006th most numerous family name worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 7,895,499 people. The surname Sultanah occurs predominantly in Asia, where 98 percent of Sultanah live; 76 percent live in South Asia and 76 percent live in Islamic South Asia. It is also the 199,294th most common forename on earth, held by 1,518 people.

The surname Sultanah is most commonly used in Pakistan, where it is borne by 690 people, or 1 in 258,904. In Pakistan Sultanah is primarily concentrated in: Punjab, where 60 percent live, Sindh, where 27 percent live and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where 9 percent live. Apart from Pakistan this surname exists in 13 countries. It is also found in Indonesia, where 12 percent live and Lebanon, where 8 percent live.

Sultanah Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those holding the surname is chiefly Sunni (98%) in Lebanon.

Phonetically Similar Names

Sultanah Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Sultanah in the Marathi language
सुलतानअहsulatana'aha-

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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 Sultanah
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