Palgo Surname
Approximately 262 people bear this surname
Palgo Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 236 | 1:77,763 | 2,808 |
| Philippines | 23 | 1:4,401,662 | 162,661 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Palgo (62) may also be a first name.
Palgo Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Palgo Come From? nationality or country of origin
Palgo occurs most in Burkina Faso. It can also occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Palgo? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 983,245th most common family name at a global level It is held by approximately 1 in 27,815,061 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 90 percent of Palgo live; 90 percent live in West Africa and 87 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Palgo is also the 1,246,114th most frequently used first name at a global level, borne by 62 people.
The surname Palgo is most frequently used in Burkina Faso, where it is borne by 236 people, or 1 in 77,763. In Burkina Faso it is primarily found in: Plateau-Central Region, where 51 percent live, Centre Region, where 44 percent live and Hauts-Bassins Region, where 3 percent live. Besides Burkina Faso it exists in 4 countries. It also occurs in The Philippines, where 9 percent live and India, where 0 percent live.
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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 Palgo
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