Gelag Surname
Approximately 13 people bear this surname
Gelag Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 9 | 1:905,969 | 94,851 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Nepal | 1 | 1:28,480,956 | 22,413 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Gelag Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gelag Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Gelag (Russian: Гелаг) is borne by more people in Papua New Guinea than any other country or territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Gelag? popularity and diffusion
The last name Gelag is the 5,391,485th most frequently occurring last name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by around 1 in 560,580,455 people. The surname Gelag occurs predominantly in Oceania, where 69 percent of Gelag live; 69 percent live in Oceania Islands and 69 percent live in Papuan Oceania.
The surname is most commonly held in Papua New Guinea, where it is held by 9 people, or 1 in 905,969. In Papua New Guinea Gelag is mostly found in: Madang, where 67 percent live and National Capital District, where 33 percent live. Aside from Papua New Guinea this last name exists in 4 countries. It also occurs in Malaysia, where 8 percent live and Nepal, where 8 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Gelag Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Gelag in the Russian language | ||
| Гелаг | gelag | - |
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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 Gelag
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