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
Ongai is borne by more people in Kenya than any other country/territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Ongai? popularity and diffusion
The surname Ongai is the 726,304th most frequently used last name on earth. It is borne by approximately 1 in 18,218,865 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 70 percent of Ongai reside; 70 percent reside in East Africa and 54 percent reside in East Bantu Africa. It is also the 552,051st most widespread first name globally It is held by 260 people.
This last name is most commonly occurring in Kenya, where it is borne by 274 people, or 1 in 168,540. In Kenya Ongai is primarily concentrated in: Nairobi County, where 37 percent reside, Kakamega County, where 36 percent reside and Vihiga County, where 20 percent reside. Barring Kenya this surname exists in 8 countries. It also occurs in Hungary, where 22 percent reside and Papua New Guinea, where 6 percent reside.
Ongai Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those holding the Ongai surname is chiefly 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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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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