Gelang Surname
Approximately 456 people bear this surname
Gelang Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 177 | 1:747,171 | 57,374 |
| Malaysia | 115 | 1:256,472 | 14,435 |
| Nepal | 111 | 1:256,585 | 3,300 |
| Sweden | 25 | 1:393,870 | 27,867 |
| Papua New Guinea | 18 | 1:452,984 | 57,838 |
| Philippines | 7 | 1:14,462,603 | 238,248 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1:50,218,684 | 817,899 |
Gelang (338) may also be a first name.
Gelang Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gelang Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gelang is held by more people in Indonesia than any other country/territory. It can appear as:. For other possible spellings of Gelang click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gelang? popularity and diffusion
The last name Gelang is the 659,458th most numerous family name throughout the world. It is borne by around 1 in 15,981,460 people. It is mostly found in Asia, where 89 percent of Gelang live; 65 percent live in Southeast Asia and 63 percent live in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia. It is also the 475,334th most frequent first name on earth. It is borne by 338 people.
It is most numerous in Indonesia, where it is carried by 177 people, or 1 in 747,171. In Indonesia Gelang is most frequent in: East Nusa Tenggara, where 67 percent live, Bangka Belitung Islands, where 11 percent live and North Sumatra, where 5 percent live. Aside from Indonesia this last name exists in 8 countries. It is also found in Malaysia, where 25 percent live and Nepal, where 24 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
- 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 Gelang
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