Kalga Surname
Approximately 1,766 people bear this surname
Kalga Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 1,387 | 1:13,232 | 1,098 |
| India | 237 | 1:3,236,563 | 94,502 |
| Cameroon | 80 | 1:259,613 | 25,186 |
| Papua New Guinea | 34 | 1:239,815 | 32,925 |
| Russia | 15 | 1:9,608,204 | 322,587 |
| Ivory Coast | 8 | 1:2,883,904 | 43,419 |
| Indonesia | 2 | 1:66,124,597 | 756,638 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
Kalga (3,055) may also be a first name.
Kalga Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kalga Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kalga (Hindi: कलगा, Marathi: काळगा, Russian: Калга) has its highest incidence in Burkina Faso. It can also occur as:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kalga? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 229,425th most frequently occurring surname internationally. It is borne by around 1 in 4,126,583 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 84 percent of Kalga live; 79 percent live in West Africa and 68 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Kalga is also the 130,610th most widely held forename worldwide It is held by 3,055 people.
The last name Kalga is most frequently used in Burkina Faso, where it is held by 1,387 people, or 1 in 13,232. In Burkina Faso it is mostly found in: Nord Region, where 42 percent live, Centre-Ouest Region, where 19 percent live and Hauts-Bassins Region, where 16 percent live. Excluding Burkina Faso this last name occurs in 9 countries. It also occurs in India, where 13 percent live and Cameroon, where 5 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kalga Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kalga in the Hindi language | ||
| कलगा | kalaga | 75 |
| कल्गा | kalga | 25 |
| Kalga in the Marathi language | ||
| काळगा | kalaga | 50 |
| कालग | kalaga | 33.33 |
| कळगा | kalaga | 16.67 |
| Kalga in the Russian language | ||
| Калга | kalga | - |
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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 Kalga
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