Gelung Surname
Approximately 115 people bear this surname
Gelung Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 91 | 1:1,453,288 | 98,507 |
| Russia | 10 | 1:14,412,306 | 394,810 |
| Germany | 7 | 1:11,500,780 | 305,602 |
| Papua New Guinea | 3 | 1:2,717,906 | 153,458 |
| Malaysia | 2 | 1:14,747,112 | 316,340 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Nepal | 1 | 1:28,480,956 | 22,413 |
Gelung (66) may also be a first name.
Gelung Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gelung Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Gelung (Russian: Гелунг, Tibetan: དགེ་ལུང།) is more commonly found in Indonesia than any other country or territory. It may appear as a variant:. For other possible spellings of Gelung click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gelung? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,701,480th most prevalent family name internationally. It is borne by around 1 in 63,369,964 people. The surname is mostly found in Asia, where 83 percent of Gelung live; 81 percent live in Southeast Asia and 81 percent live in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia. Gelung is also the 1,201,840th most widely held first name throughout the world, borne by 66 people.
The surname Gelung is most numerous in Indonesia, where it is carried by 91 people, or 1 in 1,453,288. In Indonesia it is most frequent in: East Kalimantan, where 52 percent are found, Bangka Belitung Islands, where 43 percent are found and Central Sulawesi, where 5 percent are found. Aside from Indonesia this last name is found in 6 countries. It also occurs in Russia, where 9 percent are found and Germany, where 6 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Gelung Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Gelung in the Tibetan language | ||
| དགེ་ལུང། | gélung | - |
| Gelung in the Russian language | ||
| Гелунг | gelung | - |
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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 Gelung
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