Chengay Surname
Approximately 134 people bear this surname
Chengay Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philippines | 130 | 1:778,756 | 75,558 |
| Bhutan | 2 | 1:308,020 | 1,264 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
Chengay (34) may also be a first name.
Chengay Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chengay Come From? nationality or country of origin
Chengay (Tibetan: བཙན་རྒྱས།) is borne by more people in The Philippines than any other country or territory. It may appear as:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Chengay? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,544,715th most prevalent family name in the world, held by around 1 in 54,384,671 people. This surname is mostly found in Asia, where 99 percent of Chengay are found; 96 percent are found in Southeast Asia and 96 percent are found in Fil-Southeast Asia. Chengay is also the 1,775,424th most commonly occurring first name internationally It is held by 34 people.
The surname is most commonly held in The Philippines, where it is held by 130 people, or 1 in 778,756. In The Philippines it is primarily found in: Cordillera Administrative Region, where 32 percent are found, Cagayan Valley, where 23 percent are found and Calabarzon, where 12 percent are found. Excluding The Philippines it is found in 2 countries. It is also common in Bhutan, where 1 percent are found and India, where 1 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Chengay Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Chengay in the Tibetan language | ||
| བཙན་རྒྱས། | tsengyé | 81.82 |
| བཙེན་རྒྱས། | tsengyé | 9.09 |
| བཅོ་ལྔའི་ | chongé | 9.09 |
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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 Chengay
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