Gongo Surname
Approximately 14,312 people bear this surname
Gongo Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Angola | 6,507 | 1:4,148 | 601 |
| DR Congo | 1,334 | 1:55,382 | 6,641 |
| South Africa | 1,158 | 1:46,786 | 5,956 |
| Burkina Faso | 1,034 | 1:17,749 | 1,286 |
| Ivory Coast | 1,022 | 1:22,575 | 1,640 |
| Tanzania | 1,005 | 1:52,678 | 5,812 |
| India | 906 | 1:846,651 | 37,412 |
| Benin | 294 | 1:35,155 | 4,553 |
| Nigeria | 192 | 1:922,619 | 39,799 |
| Albania | 183 | 1:15,924 | 2,834 |
| Kenya | 161 | 1:286,832 | 18,555 |
| Brazil | 129 | 1:1,659,491 | 54,555 |
| Liberia | 96 | 1:45,922 | 4,138 |
| Pakistan | 79 | 1:2,261,315 | 20,628 |
| Cameroon | 42 | 1:494,502 | 40,134 |
| Papua New Guinea | 30 | 1:271,791 | 36,992 |
| United States | 27 | 1:13,424,405 | 494,117 |
| Niger | 26 | 1:738,154 | 17,467 |
| Uganda | 20 | 1:1,951,964 | 63,898 |
| Iran | 14 | 1:5,484,466 | 128,255 |
| Greece | 8 | 1:1,384,974 | 86,362 |
| Belgium | 6 | 1:1,916,107 | 103,447 |
| Canada | 5 | 1:7,369,118 | 289,406 |
| Taiwan | 5 | 1:4,688,949 | 27,695 |
| Namibia | 4 | 1:602,350 | 12,421 |
| France | 3 | 1:22,140,907 | 385,998 |
| Philippines | 3 | 1:33,746,074 | 302,898 |
| Russia | 3 | 1:48,041,019 | 639,186 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Congo | 2 | 1:2,494,548 | 28,763 |
| Colombia | 2 | 1:23,887,036 | 32,612 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
| Central African Republic | 1 | 1:4,515,390 | 1,196 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1:15,905,846 | 50,210 |
| Estonia | 1 | 1:1,321,804 | 40,178 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Haiti | 1 | 1:10,683,907 | 24,607 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 7 | 1:7,174,098 | 302,835 |
The alternate forms: Gongô (1) are calculated separately.
Gongo (1,084) may also be a first name.
Gongo Demographics
Average Gongo Salary in
United States
$64,250 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Gongo Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gongo Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gongo (Hindi: गोंगो, Russian: Гонго, Tibetan: སྒོང་སྒོ།) occurs in Angola more than any other country/territory. It can occur as: Gongô. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gongo? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 36,848th most widely held surname on a worldwide basis It is held by around 1 in 509,191 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 89 percent of Gongo live; 54 percent live in Southern Africa and 45 percent live in Luso-Southern Africa. It is also the 242,513th most widespread forename at a global level It is held by 1,084 people.
The surname Gongo is most widespread in Angola, where it is held by 6,507 people, or 1 in 4,148. Not including Angola this last name exists in 40 countries. It also occurs in The DR Congo, where 9 percent reside and South Africa, where 8 percent reside.
Gongo Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Gongo has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the surname rose 386 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Gongo Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those holding the Gongo surname is chiefly Christian (100%) in Kenya.
In The United States those bearing the Gongo surname are 38.94% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 85.71% registered with the political party.
The amount Gongo earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 31.18% less than the national average, earning R 163,548 per year; in Colombia they earn 6.81% less than the national average, earning $21,157,500 COP per year and in United States they earn 48.9% more than the national average, earning $64,250 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Gongo Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Gongo in the Hindi language | ||
| गोंगो | gongo | - |
| Gongo in the Tibetan language | ||
| སྒོང་སྒོ། | gonggo | 33.33 |
| སྒོང་གོ། | gonggo | 22.22 |
| དགོང་གོ་ | gonggo | 11.11 |
| དགོ་གོ་ | gogo | 11.11 |
| སྒོང་མགོ། | gonggo | 11.11 |
| དགོང་སྒོ་ | gonggo | 11.11 |
| Gongo in the Russian language | ||
| Гонго | gongo | - |
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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 Gongo
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