Pelango Surname

953,750th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 274 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Indonesia
Highest density in:
Papua New Guinea

Pelango Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Pelango Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Indonesia1751:755,71057,892
Papua New Guinea771:105,89214,318
Philippines221:4,601,737165,269

Pelango (22) may also be a first name.

Pelango Last Name Facts

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

The surname Pelango is borne by more people in Indonesia than any other country or territory. It can occur in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of Pelango.

How Common Is The Last Name Pelango? popularity and diffusion

Pelango is the 953,750th most widely held family name at a global level It is held by approximately 1 in 26,596,883 people. The surname Pelango occurs predominantly in Asia, where 72 percent of Pelango live; 72 percent live in Southeast Asia and 64 percent live in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia. It is also the 2,301,746th most commonly occurring first name on earth It is held by 22 people.

This surname is most commonly held in Indonesia, where it is borne by 175 people, or 1 in 755,710. In Indonesia it is most prevalent in: North Sulawesi, where 81 percent reside, Gorontalo, where 17 percent reside and East Kalimantan, where 2 percent reside. Barring Indonesia it exists in 2 countries. It is also found in Papua New Guinea, where 28 percent reside and The Philippines, where 8 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
  • 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 Pelango
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