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 surname Asongo is held by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It can also occur as:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Asongo? popularity and diffusion
Asongo is the 157,549th most common surname world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 2,625,197 people. Asongo is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Asongo are found; 84 percent are found in West Africa and 84 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 409,203rd most widely held forename on earth, borne by 439 people.
Asongo is most frequently occurring in Nigeria, where it is borne by 2,306 people, or 1 in 76,818. In Nigeria it is most numerous in: Benue, where 89 percent live, Taraba, where 3 percent live and Kaduna, where 2 percent live. Apart from Nigeria this surname exists in 13 countries. It is also common in The DR Congo, where 16 percent live and Burkina Faso, where 0 percent live.
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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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