Kargay Surname
Approximately 19 people bear this surname
Kargay Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Russia | 10 | 1:14,412,306 | 394,810 |
| Liberia | 6 | 1:734,756 | 29,369 |
| India | 3 | 1:255,688,461 | 1,306,352 |
Kargay (17) may also be a first name.
Kargay Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kargay Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kargay (Russian: Каргай, Tibetan: དཀར་རྒྱས།) is found in Russia more than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered as a variant:. Click here for further possible spellings of Kargay.
How Common Is The Last Name Kargay? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 4,532,898th most frequent last name on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 383,555,048 people. The last name is primarily found in Asia, where 68 percent of Kargay are found; 53 percent are found in North Asia and 53 percent are found in Slavic North Asia. It is also the 2,694,839th most frequently used first name throughout the world, borne by 17 people.
This last name is most prevalent in Russia, where it is held by 10 people, or 1 in 14,412,306. In Russia it is primarily concentrated in: Novosibirsk Oblast, where 70 percent reside and Omsk Oblast, where 30 percent reside. Aside from Russia this surname is found in 2 countries. It is also found in Liberia, where 32 percent reside and India, where 16 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kargay Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kargay in the Tibetan language | ||
| དཀར་རྒྱས། | kargyé | 80 |
| དཀར་རྒྱས་ | kargyé | 20 |
| Kargay in the Russian language | ||
| Каргай | kargaj | - |
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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 Kargay
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