Gontoing Surname
Approximately 391 people bear this surname
Gontoing Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 387 | 1:53,667 | 6,988 |
| Chad | 4 | 1:3,398,050 | 7,703 |
Gontoing (40) may also be a first name.
Gontoing Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gontoing Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gontoing occurs most in Cameroon. It may occur in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of Gontoing.
How Common Is The Last Name Gontoing? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 738,530th most widespread surname in the world, held by approximately 1 in 18,638,225 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Gontoing live; 65 percent live in Central Africa and 59 percent live in Adamawa-Ubangian Africa. It is also the 1,614,485th most frequently used forename at a global level, borne by 40 people.
The surname Gontoing is most common in Cameroon, where it is held by 387 people, or 1 in 53,667. In Cameroon Gontoing is primarily concentrated in: Far North Region, where 79 percent live, North Region, where 15 percent live and South Region, where 4 percent live. Other than Cameroon this last name exists in one country. It is also found in Chad, where 1 percent live.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Gontoing
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