Gantong Surname
Approximately 440 people bear this surname
Gantong Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philippines | 408 | 1:248,133 | 37,228 |
| Malaysia | 10 | 1:2,949,422 | 111,742 |
| Thailand | 10 | 1:7,063,834 | 426,148 |
| Canada | 4 | 1:9,211,398 | 321,528 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Indonesia | 3 | 1:44,083,065 | 698,220 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
Gantong (1,087) may also be a first name.
Gantong Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gantong Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gantong (Tibetan: འགན་སྟོང་།) is more frequently found in The Philippines than any other country or territory. It may also appear as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Gantong? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 677,464th most common family name at a global level, held by approximately 1 in 16,562,604 people. The surname Gantong occurs predominantly in Asia, where 98 percent of Gantong reside; 98 percent reside in Southeast Asia and 89 percent reside in Fil-Southeast Asia. It is also the 242,116th most frequently used first name internationally, held by 1,087 people.
The last name Gantong is most widespread in The Philippines, where it is held by 408 people, or 1 in 248,133. In The Philippines Gantong is mostly concentrated in: Calabarzon, where 31 percent live, Bicol, where 27 percent live and Central Luzon, where 15 percent live. Besides The Philippines this last name occurs in 6 countries. It is also common in Malaysia, where 2 percent live and Thailand, where 2 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Gantong Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Gantong in the Tibetan language | ||
| འགན་སྟོང་། | gentong | - |
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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 Gantong
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