Kosang Surname
Approximately 237 people bear this surname
Kosang Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thailand | 141 | 1:500,981 | 87,346 |
| Indonesia | 67 | 1:1,973,869 | 124,197 |
| Papua New Guinea | 28 | 1:291,204 | 39,406 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
Kosang (112) may also be a first name.
Kosang Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kosang Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kosang (Tibetan: བྷ་འདུར་་ཀོ་སང་) occurs most in Thailand. It may be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kosang? popularity and diffusion
Kosang is the 1,055,483rd most commonly used last name throughout the world It is held by around 1 in 30,749,139 people. The surname Kosang is mostly found in Asia, where 88 percent of Kosang are found; 88 percent are found in Southeast Asia and 59 percent are found in Tai-Asia. Kosang is also the 885,979th most frequently occurring given name on earth, held by 112 people.
Kosang is most widely held in Thailand, where it is carried by 141 people, or 1 in 500,981. In Thailand Kosang is most frequent in: Phetchabun Province, where 64 percent live, Chiang Rai Province, where 16 percent live and Bangkok, where 3 percent live. Aside from Thailand Kosang occurs in 3 countries. It is also common in Indonesia, where 28 percent live and Papua New Guinea, where 12 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kosang Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kosang in the Tibetan language | ||
| བྷ་འདུར་་ཀོ་སང་ | bhadurkosang | - |
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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 Kosang
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