Sungun Surname
Approximately 806 people bear this surname
Sungun Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turkey | 743 | 1:104,739 | 9,035 |
| Papua New Guinea | 27 | 1:301,990 | 40,635 |
| Indonesia | 10 | 1:13,224,919 | 434,432 |
| Nigeria | 10 | 1:17,714,276 | 277,641 |
| Thailand | 5 | 1:14,127,669 | 603,945 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| South Korea | 1 | 1:51,240,256 | 8,015 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Süngün (1) are calculated separately.
Sungun (68) may also be a first name.
Sungun Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sungun Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Sungun has its highest incidence in Turkey. It can appear as a variant: Süngün. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Sungun? popularity and diffusion
It is the 428,270th most frequently occurring family name on earth. It is borne by around 1 in 9,041,620 people. The surname Sungun occurs mostly in Asia, where 88 percent of Sungun reside; 87 percent reside in West Asia and 87 percent reside in Anatolia and Highlands. It is also the 1,181,159th most widely held forename on earth It is held by 68 people.
The last name is most frequently held in Turkey, where it is borne by 743 people, or 1 in 104,739. In Turkey it is most frequent in: Istanbul Province, where 19 percent are found, Kahramanmaras Province, where 11 percent are found and Izmir Province, where 10 percent are found. Other than Turkey this last name occurs in 14 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 3 percent are found and Indonesia, where 1 percent are found.
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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 Sungun
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