Chentong Surname
Approximately 81 people bear this surname
Chentong Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taiwan | 71 | 1:330,208 | 2,647 |
| China | 9 | 1:151,924,618 | 7,954 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
Chentong (2,368) may also be a first name.
Chentong Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chentong Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Chentong (Tibetan: ཅན་སྟོང་།) is carried by more people in Taiwan than any other country/territory. It can appear as a variant:. For other possible spellings of Chentong click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Chentong? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 2,091,648th most commonly occurring last name in the world. It is borne by around 1 in 89,969,703 people. The last name is mostly found in Asia, where 100 percent of Chentong live; 99 percent live in East Asia and 99 percent live in Sino-East Asia. It is also the 152,684th most commonly used first name throughout the world, held by 2,368 people.
The surname Chentong is most commonly occurring in Taiwan, where it is borne by 71 people, or 1 in 330,208. In Taiwan Chentong is mostly found in: Taichung City, where 66 percent reside, Changhua County, where 10 percent reside and Kaohsiung City, where 10 percent reside. Without taking into account Taiwan it occurs in 2 countries. It also occurs in China, where 11 percent reside and Thailand, where 1 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Chentong Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Chentong in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཅན་སྟོང་། | chentong | - |
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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 Chentong
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