Sunar Surname
Approximately 227,782 people bear this surname
Sunar Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nepal | 199,324 | 1:143 | 29 |
| India | 16,469 | 1:46,576 | 3,227 |
| Turkey | 7,977 | 1:9,756 | 1,293 |
| Indonesia | 1,528 | 1:86,551 | 9,078 |
| Qatar | 1,036 | 1:2,276 | 199 |
| Malaysia | 404 | 1:73,006 | 5,267 |
| United Arab Emirates | 256 | 1:35,790 | 3,775 |
| Saudi Arabia | 239 | 1:129,104 | 17,726 |
| Bhutan | 185 | 1:3,330 | 209 |
| England | 70 | 1:795,972 | 43,050 |
| United States | 63 | 1:5,753,316 | 282,354 |
| Germany | 49 | 1:1,642,969 | 96,430 |
| Taiwan | 23 | 1:1,019,337 | 7,080 |
| Austria | 20 | 1:425,772 | 43,235 |
| Afghanistan | 18 | 1:1,786,288 | 13,520 |
| Northern Cyprus | 18 | 1:17,723 | 4,398 |
| Canada | 15 | 1:2,456,373 | 146,130 |
| Pakistan | 15 | 1:11,909,592 | 53,778 |
| Thailand | 10 | 1:7,063,834 | 426,148 |
| Sweden | 9 | 1:1,094,084 | 81,336 |
| Australia | 6 | 1:4,499,284 | 146,780 |
| Hong Kong | 4 | 1:1,833,871 | 6,220 |
| Bulgaria | 4 | 1:1,744,726 | 46,837 |
| Russia | 4 | 1:36,030,764 | 577,589 |
| Bahrain | 4 | 1:337,152 | 6,054 |
| France | 3 | 1:22,140,907 | 385,998 |
| Finland | 3 | 1:1,832,234 | 57,803 |
| Iceland | 2 | 1:190,045 | 6,825 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 1:4,106,458 | 122,336 |
| Spain | 2 | 1:23,376,018 | 128,922 |
| Scotland | 2 | 1:2,676,908 | 51,579 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Maldives | 1 | 1:404,172 | 7,269 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Estonia | 1 | 1:1,321,804 | 40,178 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Cayman Islands | 1 | 1:63,893 | 2,384 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Azerbaijan | 1 | 1:9,649,122 | 47,873 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1:50,218,684 | 817,899 |
The alternate forms: Sunár (1) & Suñar (1) are calculated separately.
Sunar (31,842) may also be a first name.
Sunar Demographics
Average Sunar Salary in
United States
$45,000 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Sunar Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sunar Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Sunar (Bengali: সোনার, Hindi: सुनार, Marathi: सुनार, Oriya: ସୁନାର, Russian: Сунар, Tibetan: སུ་ནར།) is more commonly found in Nepal than any other country or territory. It may also appear as a variant: Sunár or Suñar. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Sunar? popularity and diffusion
The last name Sunar is the 2,421st most commonly occurring last name throughout the world, borne by around 1 in 31,994 people. The surname Sunar occurs mostly in Asia, where 99 percent of Sunar reside; 95 percent reside in South Asia and 95 percent reside in Indo-South Asia. Sunar is also the 26,642nd most commonly used first name world-wide, borne by 31,842 people.
This surname is most widely held in Nepal, where it is borne by 199,324 people, or 1 in 143. In Nepal it is mostly concentrated in: Bheri, where 20 percent reside, Rapti, where 17 percent reside and Lumbini, where 16 percent reside. Beside Nepal this last name exists in 48 countries. It is also common in India, where 7 percent reside and Turkey, where 4 percent reside.
Sunar Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Sunar has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Sunar last name grew 6,300 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Sunar Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Sunar surname are 3.23% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 50% registered to vote for the party.
The amount Sunar earn in different countries varies notably. In United States they earn 4.29% more than the national average, earning $45,000 USD per year and in Canada they earn 17.12% less than the national average, earning $41,179 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Sunar Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Sunar in the Oriya language | ||
| ସୁନାର | sunara | 90.63 |
| ଶୁନାର | sunara | 5.29 |
| ସୁନର | sunara | 0.72 |
| ସୂନାର | sunara | 0.48 |
| ସୂତାର | sutara | 0.24 |
| ସୁନା | suna | 0.24 |
| ସୁର | sura | 0.24 |
| ସୁଣର | sunara | 0.24 |
| ସୁନାର୍ | sunar | 0.24 |
| Sunar in the Marathi language | ||
| सुनार | sunara | 90.36 |
| सुनर | sunara | 2.21 |
| सोनार | sonara | 2.09 |
| सुणार | sunara | 1.63 |
| सूनार | sunara | 0.7 |
| सुतार | sutara | 0.46 |
| सुनारे | sunare | 0.46 |
| Sunar in the Tibetan language | ||
| སུ་ནར། | sunar | 86.4 |
| སུན་ཝར། | sünwar | 5.6 |
| སུན་ནར། | sünnar | 4.8 |
| སུ་ནར | sunar | 2.4 |
| སུ་ནར་། | sunar | 0.8 |
| Sunar in the Bengali language | ||
| সোনার | sonara | 60 |
| সুনার | sunara | 40 |
| Sunar in the Hindi language | ||
| सुनार | sunara | 51.16 |
| सुनर | sunara | 46.37 |
| सूनार | sunara | 0.99 |
| सूनर | sunara | 0.99 |
| सुनरा | sunara | 0.17 |
| Sunar in the Russian language | ||
| Сунар | sunar | - |
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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
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