Unis Surname
Approximately 3,989 people bear this surname
Unis Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 1,800 | 1:98,413 | 6,715 |
| Egypt | 488 | 1:188,393 | 13,801 |
| United States | 479 | 1:756,699 | 59,021 |
| Somalia | 343 | 1:39,219 | 1,895 |
| India | 222 | 1:3,455,249 | 98,719 |
| Indonesia | 162 | 1:816,353 | 61,944 |
| Pakistan | 142 | 1:1,258,056 | 14,753 |
| Brazil | 62 | 1:3,452,812 | 97,678 |
| Canada | 44 | 1:837,400 | 65,151 |
| Lithuania | 41 | 1:74,014 | 11,104 |
| Malaysia | 36 | 1:819,284 | 37,745 |
| Papua New Guinea | 33 | 1:247,082 | 33,879 |
| Iraq | 21 | 1:1,667,698 | 16,789 |
| Poland | 20 | 1:1,900,437 | 96,203 |
| Jamaica | 18 | 1:159,442 | 5,298 |
| United Arab Emirates | 7 | 1:1,308,896 | 51,006 |
| Scotland | 7 | 1:764,831 | 25,488 |
| Guatemala | 6 | 1:2,680,445 | 6,792 |
| Philippines | 5 | 1:20,247,645 | 262,352 |
| Netherlands | 5 | 1:3,377,435 | 111,911 |
| Israel | 4 | 1:2,139,408 | 95,907 |
| Saudi Arabia | 4 | 1:7,713,954 | 37,548 |
| Sudan | 4 | 1:9,377,549 | 8,207 |
| Bangladesh | 4 | 1:39,839,193 | 17,324 |
| Hong Kong | 3 | 1:2,445,161 | 9,595 |
| Finland | 3 | 1:1,832,234 | 57,803 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| Sweden | 3 | 1:3,282,252 | 190,759 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| Lebanon | 2 | 1:2,818,542 | 25,087 |
| China | 2 | 1:683,660,783 | 30,601 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Libya | 1 | 1:6,243,974 | 6,186 |
| Afghanistan | 1 | 1:32,153,183 | 60,828 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Solomon Islands | 1 | 1:580,029 | 22,243 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Chile | 1 | 1:17,616,474 | 93,597 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1 | 1:3,536,402 | 19,532 |
| Yemen | 1 | 1:26,425,294 | 55,147 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 1 | 1:24,375,369 | 195,128 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 6 | 1:8,369,781 | 355,680 |
The alternate forms: Uniś (1) & Üniş (4) are calculated separately.
Unis (5,116) may also be a first name.
Unis Demographics
Unis Religious Adherence
in Nigeria
Religious Adherence
in Nigeria
Unis Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Unis Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Unis (Hindi: उनीस, Marathi: उनीस) is most common in Nigeria. It can appear in the variant forms: Uniś or Üniş. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Unis? popularity and diffusion
The surname Unis is the 115,706th most widespread family name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by around 1 in 1,826,910 people. Unis is mostly found in Africa, where 66 percent of Unis are found; 45 percent are found in West Africa and 45 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Unis is also the 94,838th most frequent first name internationally, held by 5,116 people.
The last name Unis is most widespread in Nigeria, where it is borne by 1,800 people, or 1 in 98,413. In Nigeria Unis is most frequent in: Kano, where 97 percent live, Borno, where 1 percent live and Lagos, where 1 percent live. Excluding Nigeria this last name occurs in 44 countries. It is also found in Egypt, where 12 percent live and The United States, where 12 percent live.
Unis Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Unis has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Unis surname expanded 7,983 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it expanded 300 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Unis Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the Unis surname is principally Muslim (98%) in Nigeria.
In The United States those bearing the Unis surname are 7.94% more likely to be registered Democrats than The US average, with 61.17% registered with the political party.
The amount Unis earn in different countries varies somewhat. In United States they earn 26.77% more than the national average, earning $54,700 USD per year and in Canada they earn 15.04% more than the national average, earning $57,157 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Unis Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Unis in the Hindi language | ||
| उनीस | unisa | 67.57 |
| यूनिस | yunisa | 24.32 |
| युनिस | yunisa | 5.41 |
| Unis in the Marathi language | ||
| उनीस | unisa | 63.64 |
| उणीस | unisa | 27.27 |
| युनीस | yunisa | 9.09 |
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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 Unis
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