Paligar Surname

490,615th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 675 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Philippines
Highest density in:
Philippines

Paligar Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Paligar Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Philippines5911:171,30027,858
Indonesia751:1,763,323114,023
India51:153,413,076951,030
Taiwan21:11,722,37363,559
Malaysia11:29,494,225409,885
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Paligar Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Paligar Come From? nationality or country of origin

Paligar has its highest incidence in The Philippines. It can appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Paligar? popularity and diffusion

Paligar is the 490,615th most frequently occurring family name throughout the world It is held by around 1 in 10,796,364 people. It occurs predominantly in Asia, where 100 percent of Paligar reside; 99 percent reside in Southeast Asia and 88 percent reside in Fil-Southeast Asia.

The surname Paligar is most widely held in The Philippines, where it is held by 591 people, or 1 in 171,300. In The Philippines Paligar is most common in: Calabarzon, where 43 percent live, Bicol, where 36 percent live and National Capital Region, where 10 percent live. Apart from The Philippines this surname occurs in 5 countries. It also occurs in Indonesia, where 11 percent live and India, where 1 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 Paligar
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