Sunsan Surname

550,571st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 580 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Thailand
Highest density in:
Thailand

Sunsan Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Sunsan Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Thailand5711:123,71018,617
Papua New Guinea61:1,358,953118,663
Nigeria21:88,571,379625,098
Hong Kong11:7,335,48316,643
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Wales71:224,0598,079

Sunsan (356) may also be a first name.

Sunsan Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Sunsan Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Sunsan (Marathi: सुन्सान, Oriya: ସୁନ୍ସାନ୍) is borne by more people in Thailand than any other country or territory. It can also appear as:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Sunsan? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 550,571st most common last name on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 12,564,734 people. The last name occurs mostly in Asia, where 99 percent of Sunsan are found; 98 percent are found in Southeast Asia and 98 percent are found in Tai-Asia. Sunsan is also the 461,707th most commonly occurring given name on earth, borne by 356 people.

Sunsan is most widely held in Thailand, where it is borne by 571 people, or 1 in 123,710. In Thailand it is most common in: Trang Province, where 60 percent live, Kanchanaburi Province, where 10 percent live and Nakhon Si Thammarat Province, where 6 percent live. Not including Thailand this last name is found in 3 countries. It is also found in Papua New Guinea, where 1 percent live and Nigeria, where 0 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

Sunsan Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Sunsan in the Oriya language
ସୁନ୍ସାନ୍sunsan-
Sunsan in the Marathi language
सुन्सानsunsana-

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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 Sunsan
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