Gainga Surname
Approximately 41 people bear this surname
Gainga Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 36 | 1:226,492 | 31,172 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Gainga (32) may also be a first name.
Gainga Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gainga Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Gainga is found most frequently in Papua New Guinea. It can occur as a variant:. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Gainga? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 3,055,934th most frequently occurring last name at a global level, held by approximately 1 in 177,745,022 people. The last name Gainga occurs mostly in Oceania, where 88 percent of Gainga live; 88 percent live in Oceania Islands and 88 percent live in Papuan Oceania. Gainga is also the 1,840,253rd most widely held first name at a global level, borne by 32 people.
This last name is most frequent in Papua New Guinea, where it is held by 36 people, or 1 in 226,492. In Papua New Guinea it is most prevalent in: West New Britain, where 53 percent reside, Morobe, where 44 percent reside and New Ireland, where 3 percent reside. Barring Papua New Guinea this surname is found in 5 countries. It is also found in Cameroon, where 2 percent reside and Nigeria, where 2 percent reside.
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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 Gainga
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