Sunus Surname
Approximately 93 people bear this surname
Sunus Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 52 | 1:3,406,592 | 101,701 |
| India | 23 | 1:33,350,669 | 396,143 |
| Malaysia | 9 | 1:3,277,136 | 121,952 |
| Indonesia | 7 | 1:18,892,742 | 520,071 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 8 | 1:6,277,336 | 262,771 |
Sunus (166) may also be a first name.
Sunus Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sunus Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Sunus (Hindi: सुनुस, Marathi: सुनुस) is more frequently found in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It may be rendered as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Sunus? popularity and diffusion
Sunus is the 1,931,261st most widely held last name globally It is held by approximately 1 in 78,360,709 people. The last name Sunus occurs mostly in Africa, where 57 percent of Sunus are found; 56 percent are found in West Africa and 56 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 710,504th most frequently occurring given name worldwide. It is borne by 166 people.
The surname Sunus is most frequently used in Nigeria, where it is borne by 52 people, or 1 in 3,406,592. In Nigeria Sunus is most common in: Kano, where 63 percent are found, Federal Capital Territory, where 13 percent are found and Oyo, where 10 percent are found. Beside Nigeria this last name occurs in 5 countries. It also occurs in India, where 25 percent are found and Malaysia, where 10 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Sunus Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Sunus in the Hindi language | ||
| सुनुस | sunusa | 64.71 |
| सूनुस | sunusa | 23.53 |
| सूनूस | sunusa | 5.88 |
| सुनूस | sunusa | 5.88 |
| Sunus in the Marathi language | ||
| सुनुस | sunusa | 56.82 |
| सुनूस | sunusa | 27.27 |
| सूनूस | sunusa | 4.55 |
| युनूस | yunusa | 4.55 |
| सुनूसािहम | sunusaihama | 2.27 |
| मसुनूस | masunusa | 2.27 |
| सुनूसाहीम | sunusahima | 2.27 |
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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 Sunus
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