Ongara Surname
Approximately 558 people bear this surname
Ongara Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenya | 286 | 1:161,468 | 12,625 |
| Tanzania | 221 | 1:239,555 | 19,542 |
| Papua New Guinea | 20 | 1:407,686 | 53,132 |
| Uganda | 20 | 1:1,951,964 | 63,898 |
| India | 4 | 1:191,766,346 | 1,073,940 |
| Congo | 2 | 1:2,494,548 | 28,763 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Ongara (24) may also be a first name.
Ongara Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ongara Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Ongara is held by more people in Kenya than any other country or territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ongara? popularity and diffusion
The last name Ongara is the 566,665th most frequent surname on a worldwide basis, borne by approximately 1 in 13,060,118 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 95 percent of Ongara live; 94 percent live in East Africa and 58 percent live in East Bantu Africa. It is also the 2,187,323rd most frequent given name globally It is held by 24 people.
It is most numerous in Kenya, where it is borne by 286 people, or 1 in 161,468. In Kenya Ongara is primarily found in: Nairobi County, where 28 percent reside, Homa Bay County, where 27 percent reside and Vihiga County, where 24 percent reside. Other than Kenya this last name occurs in 9 countries. It is also common in Tanzania, where 40 percent reside and Papua New Guinea, where 4 percent reside.
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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 Ongara
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