Sunwar Surname

126,313th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 3,599 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
India
Highest density in:
Bhutan

Sunwar Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Sunwar Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
India2,2081:347,40319,000
Bhutan1,0921:56480
Nigeria771:2,300,55577,632
England741:752,94741,527
United Arab Emirates421:218,14914,475
Nepal261:1,095,4216,297
United States171:21,321,114641,998
Qatar161:147,37516,023
Afghanistan131:2,473,32216,278
Canada81:4,605,699220,704
Malaysia71:4,213,461150,293
Australia41:6,748,925181,100
Hong Kong41:1,833,8716,220
Germany21:40,252,730481,636
Philippines21:50,619,112341,003
Iraq11:35,021,65431,813
Pakistan11:178,643,885213,220
Georgia11:3,745,54547,852
Singapore11:5,507,70347,049
Thailand11:70,638,3451,175,915
Brunei11:418,7313,893
Bangladesh11:159,356,77326,077

Sunwar (37) may also be a first name.

Sunwar Last Name Facts

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

The last name Sunwar (Hindi: सुनवार, Marathi: सुनवर, Oriya: ସୁନୱାର, Tibetan: སུན་ཝར།) is more commonly found in India than any other country/territory. It can appear as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Sunwar? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 126,313th most frequent family name internationally. It is borne by around 1 in 2,024,881 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Asia, where 95 percent of Sunwar reside; 93 percent reside in South Asia and 62 percent reside in Indo-South Asia. It is also the 1,688,769th most commonly occurring forename world-wide It is held by 37 people.

It is most frequently occurring in India, where it is borne by 2,208 people, or 1 in 347,403. In India it is most common in: Sikkim, where 56 percent live, West Bengal, where 37 percent live and Jharkhand, where 2 percent live. Excluding India this surname exists in 21 countries. It also occurs in Bhutan, where 30 percent live and Nigeria, where 2 percent live.

Sunwar Last Name Statistics demography

Sunwar earn notably less less than the average income. In United States they earn 24.89% less than the national average, earning $32,411 USD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Sunwear924/
Saunwar922/
Sunware921/
Sunwarh921/
Sonwar8370/
Sunuar8331/
Sunvar8327/
Sumwar8317/
Sunbar8312/
Junwar833/
Sunwor831/
Shinwar77368/
Shumwar7762/
Sunbear7717/
Saunuar7711/
Sounbar777/
Sunvard772/
Sunuaar771/
Chunwar771/
Sonnwar771/
Shinwair715/
Jhaunwar711/
Sumbar67139/
Cunvar67112/
Junuar6759/
Sonuar6722/
Junvar674/
Junwor671/
Sunbor671/
Zunwor671/

Sunwar Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Sunwar in the Hindi language
सुनवारsunavara-
Sunwar in the Oriya language
ସୁନୱାରsunawara-
Sunwar in the Marathi language
सुनवरsunavara-
Sunwar in the Tibetan language
སུན་ཝར།sünwar94.42
སུན་ལྦར།sünbar2.97
སུན་བར།sünwar1.12
སན་ཝར།senwar0.37
བྷ་དུརbhadur0.19
གཇཱ་མིར།gajamir0.19
སེན་ཝར།senwar0.19
སུནལྦར་།sunbar0.19
སུ་ནུ་ཝར།sunuwar0.19
སུན་སྦར།sünbar0.19

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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 Sunwar
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