Sulung Surname
Approximately 1,628 people bear this surname
Sulung Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 1,376 | 1:96,111 | 9,989 |
| Malaysia | 84 | 1:351,122 | 18,683 |
| India | 67 | 1:11,448,737 | 210,278 |
| Cambodia | 39 | 1:397,106 | 3,882 |
| Thailand | 32 | 1:2,207,448 | 250,768 |
| Papua New Guinea | 24 | 1:339,738 | 45,241 |
| Australia | 2 | 1:13,497,850 | 222,987 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 1 | 1:5,972,654 | 99,197 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Sulung (2,482) may also be a first name.
Sulung Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sulung Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Sulung occurs most in Indonesia. It may also be rendered as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Sulung? popularity and diffusion
It is the 244,645th most frequently used surname worldwide, held by approximately 1 in 4,476,380 people. It is mostly found in Asia, where 96 percent of Sulung live; 92 percent live in Southeast Asia and 87 percent live in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia. It is also the 148,228th most widely held first name worldwide, borne by 2,482 people.
This last name is most frequent in Indonesia, where it is carried by 1,376 people, or 1 in 96,111. In Indonesia it is primarily found in: West Java, where 28 percent live, East Nusa Tenggara, where 10 percent live and Jakarta, where 9 percent live. Other than Indonesia Sulung occurs in 10 countries. It is also common in Malaysia, where 5 percent live and India, where 4 percent live.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Sulung
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