Asongo Surname
Approximately 2,776 people bear this surname
Asongo Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 2,306 | 1:76,818 | 5,491 |
| DR Congo | 431 | 1:171,414 | 17,546 |
| Burkina Faso | 12 | 1:1,529,342 | 12,810 |
| Ghana | 9 | 1:3,002,299 | 11,581 |
| Cameroon | 7 | 1:2,967,010 | 123,373 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Asongo (439) may also be a first name.
Asongo Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Asongo Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Asongo is borne by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered as:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Asongo? popularity and diffusion
The surname Asongo is the 157,549th most frequently held surname on a global scale It is held by around 1 in 2,625,197 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Asongo live; 84 percent live in West Africa and 84 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Asongo is also the 409,203rd most common given name throughout the world, borne by 439 people.
This last name is most commonly occurring in Nigeria, where it is carried by 2,306 people, or 1 in 76,818. In Nigeria Asongo is most numerous in: Benue, where 89 percent are found, Taraba, where 3 percent are found and Kaduna, where 2 percent are found. Without taking into account Nigeria this surname exists in 13 countries. It also occurs in The DR Congo, where 16 percent are found and Burkina Faso, where 0 percent are found.
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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 Asongo
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