Tuñas Surname

490,085th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 676 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Spain
Highest density in:
Spain

Tuñas Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Tuñas Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Spain5951:78,5756,809
Argentina561:763,27551,263
Venezuela91:3,356,00933,931
Uruguay41:857,94031,713
Brazil31:71,358,111770,017
Mexico31:41,375,40271,397
United States31:120,819,6441,331,040
Germany11:80,505,459560,955
Sweden11:9,846,757347,448
Switzerland11:8,212,915156,297

The alternate forms: Tunas (3,001), Tunaş (129) & Tunaś (1) are calculated separately.

Tuñas Last Name Facts

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

The last name Tuñas is held by more people in Spain than any other country or territory. It can also occur as: Tunas, Tunaş or Tunaś. For other potential spellings of Tuñas click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Tuñas? popularity and diffusion

Tuñas is the 490,085th most widespread surname globally, held by approximately 1 in 10,780,393 people. The last name Tuñas occurs predominantly in Europe, where 88 percent of Tuñas reside; 88 percent reside in Southwestern Europe and 88 percent reside in Iberian Europe.

The surname Tuñas is most widespread in Spain, where it is held by 595 people, or 1 in 78,575. In Spain Tuñas is most frequent in: Galicia, where 83 percent are found, Madrid, where 7 percent are found and Catalonia, where 3 percent are found. Barring Spain it exists in 9 countries. It is also common in Argentina, where 8 percent are found and Venezuela, where 1 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Tunas933,001/
Tunaş87129/
Tunaś871/
Tuños806/
Tounas73221/
Tunase7331/
Teunas7321/
Tunjas7318/
Tunais7317/
Tuynas7310/
Tuunas738/
Tunias737/
Tunhas735/
Thunas733/
Tumnas732/
Taunas732/
Tunnas732/
Tumhas731/
Tutnas731/
Tuinas731/
Tungas731/
Tuneas730/
Tumėnas67383/
Tunjaas67262/
Taunais67237/
Tunyase675/
Tounias675/
Tunashe673/
Tuniase672/
Taunaus671/
Toungas671/

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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 Tuñas
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