Vuvu Surname
Approximately 10,096 people bear this surname
Vuvu Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 9,728 | 1:7,595 | 943 |
| Papua New Guinea | 192 | 1:42,467 | 5,174 |
| Vietnam | 77 | 1:1,203,196 | 1,978 |
| South Africa | 24 | 1:2,257,404 | 96,432 |
| England | 13 | 1:4,286,005 | 132,302 |
| Belgium | 10 | 1:1,149,664 | 82,403 |
| Russia | 6 | 1:24,020,509 | 493,300 |
| India | 6 | 1:127,844,230 | 863,365 |
| Netherlands | 5 | 1:3,377,435 | 111,911 |
| Brazil | 5 | 1:42,814,866 | 547,158 |
| Tunisia | 4 | 1:152,656 | 17,743 |
| Sweden | 4 | 1:2,461,689 | 157,534 |
| Angola | 4 | 1:6,747,304 | 6,999 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Pakistan | 2 | 1:89,321,942 | 157,560 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Solomon Islands | 1 | 1:580,029 | 22,243 |
| Serbia | 1 | 1:7,144,948 | 38,459 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Nepal | 1 | 1:28,480,956 | 22,413 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Georgia | 1 | 1:3,745,545 | 47,852 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
Vuvu (2,590) may also be a first name.
Vuvu Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Vuvu Come From? nationality or country of origin
Vuvu (Russian: Вуву) is borne by more people in The DR Congo than any other country/territory. It may occur in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Vuvu? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 50,796th most common last name worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 721,825 people. The last name Vuvu occurs mostly in Africa, where 97 percent of Vuvu live; 96 percent live in Central Africa and 96 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 144,528th most widely held forename in the world, held by 2,590 people.
This surname is most numerous in The DR Congo, where it is borne by 9,728 people, or 1 in 7,595. Aside from The DR Congo this last name is found in 28 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 2 percent live and Vietnam, where 1 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Vuvu Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Vuvu in the Russian language | ||
| Вуву | vuvu | - |
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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 Vuvu
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