Kontong Surname

540,057th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 595 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Thailand
Highest density in:
Ecuador

Kontong Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Kontong Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Thailand2701:261,62444,607
Ecuador1791:88,8595,908
Philippines1001:1,012,38286,556
Indonesia311:4,266,103213,470
Malaysia71:4,213,461150,293
United States41:90,614,7331,198,479
Cameroon11:20,769,068227,406
Chile11:17,616,47493,597
Norway11:5,142,286129,201
Sweden11:9,846,757347,448

Kontong (33) may also be a first name.

Kontong Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Kontong Come From? nationality or country of origin

Kontong (Tibetan: དཀོན་ལྟོང་།) is found in Thailand more than any other country/territory. It can also occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Kontong? popularity and diffusion

It is the 540,057th most frequently occurring surname globally, held by around 1 in 12,247,976 people. The last name Kontong occurs predominantly in Asia, where 69 percent of Kontong live; 69 percent live in Southeast Asia and 45 percent live in Tai-Asia. Kontong is also the 1,807,719th most numerous given name at a global level, borne by 33 people.

The surname is most frequent in Thailand, where it is held by 270 people, or 1 in 261,624. In Thailand it is mostly found in: Phitsanulok Province, where 24 percent reside, Udon Thani Province, where 19 percent reside and Bangkok, where 12 percent reside. Without taking into account Thailand this surname is found in 9 countries. It also occurs in Ecuador, where 30 percent reside and The Philippines, where 17 percent reside.

Kontong Last Name Statistics demography

Kontong earn more than double the average income. In United States they earn 118.29% more than the national average, earning $94,188 USD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

Kontong Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Kontong in the Tibetan language
དཀོན་ལྟོང་།köntong50
དཀོན་སྟོང་།།köntong50

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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 Kontong
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