Umemiya Surname

237,170th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 1,693 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Japan
Highest density in:
Japan

Umemiya Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Umemiya Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Japan1,6701:76,5535,240
Brazil151:14,271,622267,944
Thailand61:11,773,058553,295
Philippines11:101,238,223404,861
Russia11:144,123,056881,408

Umemiya Last Name Facts

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

Umemiya (Russian: Умемия) is carried by more people in Japan than any other country/territory. It may appear in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Umemiya? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 237,170th most frequently occurring family name on a worldwide basis, held by approximately 1 in 4,304,516 people. The last name is mostly found in Asia, where 99 percent of Umemiya live; 99 percent live in East Asia and 99 percent live in Nippono-Asia.

This last name is most commonly held in Japan, where it is carried by 1,670 people, or 1 in 76,553. In Japan it is most prevalent in: Fukushima Prefecture, where 46 percent are found, Hyōgo Prefecture, where 12 percent are found and Tokyo Metropolis, where 11 percent are found. Other than Japan this last name occurs in 4 countries. It also occurs in Brazil, where 1 percent are found and Thailand, where 0 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Umemeya861/
Himemiya80150/
Umamiyah8079/
Oumamiya801/
Umemae7726/
Imamiya712,085/
Umemeie711/
Imamiyah6784/
Imoemiye6726/
Jimamiya671/

Umemiya Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Umemiya in the Russian language
Умемияumemia-

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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 Umemiya
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