Bengu Surname
Approximately 6,683 people bear this surname
Bengu Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 5,045 | 1:10,739 | 1,333 |
| Indonesia | 766 | 1:172,649 | 16,733 |
| Albania | 423 | 1:6,889 | 1,312 |
| DR Congo | 150 | 1:492,530 | 39,325 |
| Greece | 99 | 1:111,917 | 18,809 |
| Liberia | 80 | 1:55,107 | 4,868 |
| Zimbabwe | 38 | 1:406,269 | 36,425 |
| United States | 28 | 1:12,944,962 | 483,512 |
| India | 20 | 1:38,353,269 | 431,471 |
| Moldova | 12 | 1:296,781 | 24,445 |
| England | 9 | 1:6,190,895 | 170,599 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
The alternate forms: Bengü (1,261) are calculated separately.
Bengu (2,195) may also be a first name.
Bengu Demographics
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Bengu Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bengu Come From? nationality or country of origin
Bengu is found most frequently in South Africa. It can also be found as: Bengü. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Bengu? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 73,640th most commonly held family name at a global level, borne by around 1 in 1,090,460 people. This surname is primarily found in Africa, where 80 percent of Bengu are found; 76 percent are found in Southern Africa and 76 percent are found in South Bantu Africa. Bengu is also the 159,852nd most numerous first name throughout the world. It is borne by 2,195 people.
The surname Bengu is most widely held in South Africa, where it is carried by 5,045 people, or 1 in 10,739. In South Africa Bengu is primarily found in: KwaZulu-Natal, where 61 percent reside, Eastern Cape, where 14 percent reside and Gauteng, where 13 percent reside. Excluding South Africa this last name exists in 22 countries. It also occurs in Indonesia, where 11 percent reside and Albania, where 6 percent reside.
Bengu Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Bengu surname are 13.44% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 66.67% registered to vote for the party.
The amount Bengu earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 36.73% less than the national average, earning R 150,360 per year and in United States they earn 60.46% more than the national average, earning $69,235 USD 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
- 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 Bengu
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