Sunah Surname
Approximately 1,418 people bear this surname
Sunah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 825 | 1:160,302 | 15,644 |
| Nepal | 417 | 1:68,300 | 1,745 |
| Israel | 66 | 1:129,661 | 14,046 |
| Nigeria | 44 | 1:4,025,972 | 113,480 |
| Malaysia | 24 | 1:1,228,926 | 53,021 |
| Maldives | 15 | 1:26,945 | 1,601 |
| Uganda | 15 | 1:2,602,619 | 75,106 |
| Tanzania | 4 | 1:13,235,403 | 84,310 |
| Chile | 2 | 1:8,808,237 | 65,417 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Jordan | 1 | 1:8,842,437 | 26,010 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Sunah (10,663) may also be a first name.
Sunah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sunah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Sunah (Hindi: सुनह, Oriya: ସୁନହ) is found in Indonesia more than any other country or territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Sunah? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 274,073rd most commonly used surname globally. It is borne by around 1 in 5,139,313 people. Sunah occurs predominantly in Asia, where 95 percent of Sunah live; 60 percent live in Southeast Asia and 60 percent live in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia. It is also the 58,694th most widely held forename world-wide, borne by 10,663 people.
The last name is most numerous in Indonesia, where it is borne by 825 people, or 1 in 160,302. In Indonesia it is most frequent in: East Java, where 19 percent are found, West Java, where 16 percent are found and Central Java, where 14 percent are found. Apart from Indonesia Sunah is found in 14 countries. It is also common in Nepal, where 29 percent are found and Israel, where 5 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Sunah Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Sunah in the Oriya language | ||
| ସୁନହ | sunaha | - |
| Sunah in the Hindi language | ||
| सुनह | sunaha | 81.82 |
| सुनाह | sunaha | 9.09 |
| सुनहा | sunaha | 9.09 |
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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 Sunah
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