Gelong Surname
Approximately 234 people bear this surname
Gelong Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 138 | 1:958,327 | 70,806 |
| Papua New Guinea | 60 | 1:135,895 | 18,658 |
| Malaysia | 18 | 1:1,638,568 | 67,452 |
| Canada | 8 | 1:4,605,699 | 220,704 |
| Philippines | 5 | 1:20,247,645 | 262,352 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Taiwan | 1 | 1:23,444,746 | 93,622 |
Gelong (1,948) may also be a first name.
Gelong Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gelong Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gelong (Bengali: গেলঙ্গ, Tibetan: དགེ་སློང།) is held by more people in Indonesia than any other country/territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Gelong? popularity and diffusion
The surname Gelong is the 1,064,392nd most widely held last name at a global level It is held by around 1 in 31,143,359 people. It occurs mostly in Asia, where 68 percent of Gelong reside; 66 percent reside in Southeast Asia and 64 percent reside in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia. It is also the 171,749th most commonly occurring first name on earth. It is borne by 1,948 people.
The surname Gelong is most frequent in Indonesia, where it is carried by 138 people, or 1 in 958,327. In Indonesia Gelong is mostly concentrated in: South Sulawesi, where 70 percent reside, East Nusa Tenggara, where 20 percent reside and Papua, where 4 percent reside. Excluding Indonesia Gelong is found in 8 countries. It is also common in Papua New Guinea, where 26 percent reside and Malaysia, where 8 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Gelong Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Gelong in the Bengali language | ||
| গেলঙ্গ | gelanga | - |
| Gelong in the Tibetan language | ||
| དགེ་སློང། | gelong | 30.77 |
| དགེ་སློང་། | gelong | 30.77 |
| དགེ་སློང་ | gelong | 15.38 |
| དགེ་ལོང། | gélong | 7.69 |
| རྒྱས་སློང་ | gyélong | 7.69 |
| གེ་ལོང་ | gélong | 7.69 |
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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 Gelong
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