Sung Surname
Approximately 40,877 people bear this surname
Sung Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 9,712 | 1:37,321 | 4,619 |
| Myanmar | 6,940 | 1:7,484 | 249 |
| Vietnam | 5,608 | 1:16,520 | 348 |
| South Korea | 5,445 | 1:9,411 | 106 |
| Cambodia | 2,486 | 1:6,230 | 789 |
| Canada | 1,478 | 1:24,929 | 3,364 |
| Malaysia | 1,432 | 1:20,597 | 1,921 |
| Thailand | 1,359 | 1:51,978 | 6,154 |
| Indonesia | 980 | 1:134,948 | 13,459 |
| England | 809 | 1:68,873 | 7,956 |
| Australia | 799 | 1:33,787 | 4,454 |
| Hong Kong | 554 | 1:13,241 | 367 |
| China | 433 | 1:3,157,787 | 385 |
| Taiwan | 283 | 1:82,844 | 835 |
| Japan | 275 | 1:464,888 | 13,933 |
| Saudi Arabia | 199 | 1:155,054 | 22,057 |
| New Zealand | 176 | 1:25,729 | 4,511 |
| France | 167 | 1:397,741 | 58,569 |
| Egypt | 153 | 1:600,887 | 32,813 |
| India | 135 | 1:5,681,966 | 136,010 |
| Brunei | 114 | 1:3,673 | 604 |
| Brazil | 113 | 1:1,894,463 | 60,739 |
| Papua New Guinea | 113 | 1:72,157 | 9,422 |
| Netherlands | 82 | 1:205,941 | 28,291 |
| Philippines | 81 | 1:1,249,855 | 96,172 |
| Germany | 79 | 1:1,019,056 | 69,716 |
| Scotland | 77 | 1:69,530 | 5,379 |
| Dominican Republic | 54 | 1:193,202 | 7,170 |
| Singapore | 51 | 1:107,994 | 4,447 |
| Wales | 46 | 1:67,272 | 5,910 |
| Argentina | 39 | 1:1,095,985 | 66,746 |
| Guam | 37 | 1:4,328 | 556 |
| South Africa | 37 | 1:1,464,262 | 76,407 |
| Russia | 33 | 1:4,367,365 | 205,470 |
| Peru | 30 | 1:1,059,471 | 19,489 |
| Kuwait | 29 | 1:131,058 | 14,967 |
| Ecuador | 27 | 1:589,105 | 11,569 |
| Panama | 27 | 1:144,898 | 4,800 |
| Cameroon | 25 | 1:830,763 | 57,125 |
| Laos | 25 | 1:263,533 | 260 |
| Spain | 25 | 1:1,870,081 | 51,392 |
| Italy | 21 | 1:2,912,223 | 98,106 |
| Norway | 21 | 1:244,871 | 26,357 |
| Sweden | 21 | 1:468,893 | 33,666 |
| Qatar | 19 | 1:124,105 | 14,725 |
| Venezuela | 18 | 1:1,678,004 | 21,578 |
| North Korea | 16 | 1:1,569,815 | 66 |
| Northern Ireland | 15 | 1:123,002 | 7,073 |
| Kazakhstan | 11 | 1:1,607,500 | 79,317 |
| Belgium | 10 | 1:1,149,664 | 82,403 |
| Kenya | 10 | 1:4,617,990 | 42,693 |
| Angola | 9 | 1:2,998,802 | 4,903 |
| Denmark | 8 | 1:705,589 | 39,626 |
| Nigeria | 8 | 1:22,142,845 | 310,552 |
| Costa Rica | 7 | 1:682,867 | 5,051 |
| Mexico | 7 | 1:17,732,315 | 50,495 |
| Pakistan | 7 | 1:25,520,555 | 84,222 |
| Paraguay | 7 | 1:1,033,821 | 9,769 |
| Macau | 6 | 1:100,272 | 488 |
| Switzerland | 6 | 1:1,368,819 | 77,571 |
| Belize | 5 | 1:71,095 | 2,977 |
| Guatemala | 5 | 1:3,216,534 | 7,141 |
| United Arab Emirates | 5 | 1:1,832,455 | 58,414 |
| Bangladesh | 4 | 1:39,839,193 | 17,324 |
| Chile | 4 | 1:4,404,118 | 44,633 |
| Ghana | 4 | 1:6,755,173 | 15,406 |
| Yemen | 4 | 1:6,606,324 | 25,896 |
| Algeria | 3 | 1:12,877,184 | 84,902 |
| Austria | 3 | 1:2,838,478 | 93,604 |
| Czechia | 2 | 1:5,316,734 | 169,646 |
| Greece | 2 | 1:5,539,895 | 129,142 |
| Romania | 2 | 1:10,038,935 | 80,612 |
| Turkey | 2 | 1:38,910,711 | 171,901 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| American Samoa | 1 | 1:55,758 | 3,072 |
| Azerbaijan | 1 | 1:9,649,122 | 47,873 |
| Barbados | 1 | 1:287,448 | 2,772 |
| Bhutan | 1 | 1:616,039 | 1,715 |
| Burundi | 1 | 1:9,804,852 | 2,349 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Estonia | 1 | 1:1,321,804 | 40,178 |
| Fiji | 1 | 1:894,391 | 4,568 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Haiti | 1 | 1:10,683,907 | 24,607 |
| Honduras | 1 | 1:8,816,442 | 9,272 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Jamaica | 1 | 1:2,869,947 | 13,896 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 1 | 1:5,972,654 | 99,197 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Lithuania | 1 | 1:3,034,588 | 47,401 |
| Maldives | 1 | 1:404,172 | 7,269 |
| Marshall Islands | 1 | 1:51,821 | 2,326 |
| Mauritius | 1 | 1:1,293,417 | 16,552 |
| Moldova | 1 | 1:3,561,368 | 78,271 |
| Monaco | 1 | 1:37,066 | 4,748 |
| Mongolia | 1 | 1:2,825,289 | 17,010 |
| Montenegro | 1 | 1:639,565 | 9,092 |
| Nepal | 1 | 1:28,480,956 | 22,413 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Oman | 1 | 1:3,687,971 | 14,390 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Slovenia | 1 | 1:2,487,675 | 31,128 |
| Solomon Islands | 1 | 1:580,029 | 22,243 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| United States Virgin Islands | 1 | 1:110,375 | 6,934 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 6 | 1:4,062,562 | 101,150 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 91 | 1:551,854 | 37,927 |
Sung (49,691) may also be a first name.
Sung Demographics
Sung Political Affiliation
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Sung Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sung Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Sung (Hindi: सुंग, Marathi: सुंग, Oriya: ସୁନଗ, Russian: Сунг, Tibetan: སྲུང་སྲུང་) occurs in The United States more than any other country or territory. It can also occur as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of Sung.
How Common Is The Last Name Sung? popularity and diffusion
It is the 13,656th most numerous last name on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 178,280 people. This surname is mostly found in Asia, where 65 percent of Sung live; 30 percent live in Southeast Asia and 27 percent live in Anglo-North America. It is also the 18,593rd most frequent given name at a global level It is held by 49,691 people.
It is most numerous in The United States, where it is carried by 9,712 people, or 1 in 37,321. In The United States it is most frequent in: California, where 41 percent are found, New York, where 15 percent are found and Texas, where 6 percent are found. Not including The United States it occurs in 110 countries. It is also common in Myanmar, where 17 percent are found and Vietnam, where 14 percent are found.
Sung Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Sung has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Sung surname grew 10,673 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it grew 13,483 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Sung Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those bearing the last name is principally Orthodox (75%) in Russia.
In The United States those holding the Sung last name are 5.3% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 58.53% being registered with the party.
The amount Sung earn in different countries varies greatly. In Norway they earn 30.84% less than the national average, earning 239,340 kr per year; in Peru they earn 100.73% more than the national average, earning S/. 38,912 per year; in South Africa they earn 571.82% more than the national average, earning R 1,596,500 per year; in Vietnam they earn 32.1% less than the national average, earning 55,980,100 ₫ per year; in United States they earn 25.39% more than the national average, earning $54,103 USD per year and in Canada they earn 27.44% more than the national average, earning $63,316 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Sung Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Sung in the Tibetan language | ||
| སྲུང་སྲུང་ | sungsung | - |
| Sung in the Oriya language | ||
| ସୁନଗ | sunaga | - |
| Sung in the Hindi language | ||
| सुंग | sunga | 85.71 |
| संग | sanga | 14.29 |
| Sung in the Marathi language | ||
| सुंग | sunga | 85.71 |
| सुंगु | sungu | 14.29 |
| Sung in the Russian language | ||
| Сунг | sung | - |
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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 Sung
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