Gongen Surname
Approximately 117 people bear this surname
Gongen Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japan | 65 | 1:1,966,835 | 27,587 |
| Turkey | 40 | 1:1,945,536 | 68,232 |
| India | 7 | 1:109,580,769 | 786,157 |
| Brazil | 3 | 1:71,358,111 | 770,017 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 1:25,109,342 | 694,541 |
Gongen (25) may also be a first name.
Gongen Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gongen Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gongen is more frequently found in Japan than any other country or territory. It can be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gongen? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,683,218th most commonly held surname world-wide, borne by around 1 in 62,286,717 people. The surname Gongen is mostly found in Asia, where 93 percent of Gongen live; 56 percent live in East Asia and 56 percent live in Nippono-Asia. Gongen is also the 2,136,160th most widespread forename on earth. It is borne by 25 people.
The surname Gongen is most commonly occurring in Japan, where it is held by 65 people, or 1 in 1,966,835. In Japan it is most frequent in: Hiroshima Prefecture, where 98 percent live and Kagoshima Prefecture, where 2 percent live. Outside of Japan Gongen occurs in 5 countries. It is also found in Turkey, where 34 percent live and India, where 6 percent live.
Gongen Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Gongen has changed over time. In The United States the number of people bearing the Gongen surname contracted 50 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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 Gongen
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