Ongai Surname
Approximately 400 people bear this surname
Ongai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenya | 274 | 1:168,540 | 12,948 |
| Hungary | 88 | 1:111,549 | 10,635 |
| Papua New Guinea | 22 | 1:370,624 | 48,900 |
| Germany | 7 | 1:11,500,780 | 305,602 |
| Uganda | 5 | 1:7,807,856 | 134,263 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
Ongai (260) may also be a first name.
Ongai Demographics
Ongai Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Ongai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ongai Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Ongai is found most frequently in Kenya. It may be found as:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Ongai? popularity and diffusion
The surname Ongai is the 726,304th most widely held last name internationally, held by approximately 1 in 18,218,865 people. Ongai occurs predominantly in Africa, where 70 percent of Ongai live; 70 percent live in East Africa and 54 percent live in East Bantu Africa. Ongai is also the 552,051st most common given name in the world It is held by 260 people.
The surname Ongai is most frequently held in Kenya, where it is borne by 274 people, or 1 in 168,540. In Kenya Ongai is most numerous in: Nairobi County, where 37 percent live, Kakamega County, where 36 percent live and Vihiga County, where 20 percent live. Aside from Kenya it exists in 8 countries. It is also common in Hungary, where 22 percent live and Papua New Guinea, where 6 percent live.
Ongai Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those bearing the last name is principally Christian (100%) in Kenya.
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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 Ongai
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