Weeratunga Surname

73,884th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 6,660 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Sri Lanka
Highest density in:
Sri Lanka

Weeratunga Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Weeratunga Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Sri Lanka6,5051:3,199450
Australia461:586,86342,409
United States381:9,538,393399,091
Canada211:1,754,552114,935
United Arab Emirates111:832,93427,512
Qatar91:262,00030,726
New Zealand71:646,90340,014
Germany51:16,101,092397,699
Bangladesh41:39,839,19317,324
Malaysia31:9,831,408269,765
England31:18,572,686338,250
Oman21:1,843,9869,590
Kuwait11:3,800,69427,187
Japan11:127,844,29373,547
Seychelles11:92,3931,532
South Africa11:54,177,704343,732
South Korea11:51,240,2568,015
France11:66,422,722504,397

Weeratunga Last Name Facts

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

The last name Weeratunga is carried by more people in Sri Lanka than any other country or territory. It may be rendered as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Weeratunga? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 73,884th most widely held surname worldwide It is held by approximately 1 in 1,094,226 people. It occurs predominantly in Asia, where 98 percent of Weeratunga live; 98 percent live in South Asia and 98 percent live in Indo-South Asia.

The last name Weeratunga is most commonly occurring in Sri Lanka, where it is carried by 6,505 people, or 1 in 3,199. Other than Sri Lanka it occurs in 17 countries. It also occurs in Australia, where 1 percent live and The United States, where 1 percent live.

Weeratunga Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those bearing the Weeratunga last name are 3.23% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 50% registered with the party.

The amount Weeratunga earn in different countries varies somewhat. In United States they earn 35.11% more than the national average, earning $58,300 USD per year and in Canada they earn 48.15% more than the national average, earning $73,605 CAD per year.

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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 Weeratunga
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