Gantang Surname

293,736th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 1,300 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Philippines
Highest density in:
Philippines

Gantang Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Gantang Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Philippines1,0561:95,87016,691
Indonesia1221:1,084,01078,297
Cameroon501:415,38135,427
Nigeria371:4,787,642126,894
Papua New Guinea151:543,58166,712
Malaysia91:3,277,136121,952
Australia21:13,497,850222,987
United States21:181,229,4661,556,795
Brunei11:418,7313,893
Qatar11:2,357,99976,403
Saudi Arabia11:30,855,81763,028
Singapore11:5,507,70347,049
South Africa11:54,177,704343,732
Taiwan11:23,444,74693,622
Thailand11:70,638,3451,175,915
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England11:24,375,369195,128

Gantang (4,750) may also be a first name.

Gantang Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Gantang Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Gantang is more frequently found in The Philippines than any other country or territory. It can occur in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Gantang? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 293,736th most frequent last name worldwide. It is borne by around 1 in 5,605,805 people. The last name Gantang is mostly found in Asia, where 92 percent of Gantang live; 91 percent live in Southeast Asia and 79 percent live in Fil-Southeast Asia. Gantang is also the 99,303rd most widely held given name worldwide, held by 4,750 people.

The last name is most prevalent in The Philippines, where it is borne by 1,056 people, or 1 in 95,870. In The Philippines Gantang is most frequent in: Central Luzon, where 70 percent live, National Capital Region, where 15 percent live and Calabarzon, where 6 percent live. Without taking into account The Philippines it occurs in 14 countries. It is also found in Indonesia, where 9 percent live and Cameroon, 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 Gantang
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