Gengen Surname
Approximately 166 people bear this surname
Gengen Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 62 | 1:873,834 | 57,209 |
| Nigeria | 44 | 1:4,025,972 | 113,480 |
| Indonesia | 26 | 1:5,086,507 | 239,866 |
| Papua New Guinea | 12 | 1:679,476 | 78,554 |
| Malaysia | 10 | 1:2,949,422 | 111,742 |
| Philippines | 7 | 1:14,462,603 | 238,248 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 1:25,109,342 | 694,541 |
Gengen (6,932) may also be a first name.
Gengen Demographics
Average Gengen Salary in
South Africa
R 453,396
Per year
Average Salary in
South Africa
R 237,638
Per year
Gengen Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gengen Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Gengen (Hindi: गेंगें, Russian: Генген) is more frequently found in South Africa than any other country/territory. It can also be found in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Gengen? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,343,156th most widely held surname on a global scale, borne by around 1 in 43,900,879 people. The last name Gengen is primarily found in Africa, where 64 percent of Gengen live; 37 percent live in Southern Africa and 37 percent live in South Bantu Africa. Gengen is also the 78,073rd most numerous first name world-wide, borne by 6,932 people.
It is most numerous in South Africa, where it is held by 62 people, or 1 in 873,834. In South Africa it is most numerous in: KwaZulu-Natal, where 94 percent reside and Western Cape, where 6 percent reside. Not including South Africa it exists in 9 countries. It is also found in Nigeria, where 27 percent reside and Indonesia, where 16 percent reside.
Gengen Last Name Statistics demography
Gengen earn more than fifty percent more than the average income. In South Africa they earn 90.79% more than the national average, earning R 453,396 per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Gengen Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Gengen in the Hindi language | ||
| गेंगें | gengem | - |
| Gengen in the Russian language | ||
| Генген | gengen | - |
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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 Gengen
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