Fongu Surname
Approximately 520 people bear this surname
Fongu Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 496 | 1:41,873 | 5,569 |
| Papua New Guinea | 14 | 1:582,408 | 70,330 |
| Nigeria | 6 | 1:29,523,793 | 355,097 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1:50,218,684 | 817,899 |
Fongu (15) may also be a first name.
Fongu Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Fongu Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Fongu occurs more in Cameroon more than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered as:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Fongu? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 598,302nd most frequently used surname throughout the world, held by approximately 1 in 14,014,511 people. The surname Fongu is mostly found in Africa, where 97 percent of Fongu live; 95 percent live in Central Africa and 95 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. Fongu is also the 2,900,335th most frequently held first name at a global level, borne by 15 people.
The surname Fongu is most widely held in Cameroon, where it is carried by 496 people, or 1 in 41,873. In Cameroon Fongu is primarily found in: Southwest Region, where 46 percent live, Northwest Region, where 35 percent live and Littoral Region, where 8 percent live. Without taking into account Cameroon this last name is found in 6 countries. It is also common in Papua New Guinea, where 3 percent live and Nigeria, where 1 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
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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 Fongu
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