Founga Surname
Approximately 342 people bear this surname
Founga Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Congo | 298 | 1:16,742 | 2,037 |
| Cyprus | 20 | 1:44,244 | 4,510 |
| Niger | 13 | 1:1,476,309 | 30,154 |
| Cameroon | 5 | 1:4,153,814 | 129,697 |
| Gabon | 4 | 1:472,298 | 3,618 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Founga (18) may also be a first name.
Founga Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Founga Come From? nationality or country of origin
Founga is held by more people in The Congo than any other country/territory. It may also appear as:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Founga? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 814,680th most frequent last name in the world, held by approximately 1 in 21,308,614 people. The surname is mostly found in Africa, where 94 percent of Founga live; 90 percent live in Central Africa and 89 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 2,608,198th most prevalent first name on earth. It is borne by 18 people.
This surname is most frequently occurring in The Congo, where it is carried by 298 people, or 1 in 16,742. In The Congo Founga is mostly concentrated in: Pointe-Noire Department, where 48 percent live, Brazzaville Department, where 46 percent live and Cuvette-Ouest Department, where 2 percent live. Aside from The Congo Founga exists in 6 countries. It is also common in Cyprus, where 6 percent live and Niger, where 4 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 Founga
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