Pentang Surname

2,237,939th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 72 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Philippines
Highest density in:
Cameroon

Pentang Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Pentang Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Philippines451:2,249,738125,194
Cameroon231:903,00360,285
Indonesia31:44,083,065698,220
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Pentang (74) may also be a first name.

Pentang Last Name Facts

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

The surname Pentang (Tibetan: སྤེན་གཏང་།) is most common in The Philippines. It can be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Pentang click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Pentang? popularity and diffusion

It is the 2,237,939th most commonly occurring surname worldwide It is held by approximately 1 in 101,215,916 people. The last name Pentang occurs predominantly in Asia, where 65 percent of Pentang reside; 65 percent reside in Southeast Asia and 61 percent reside in Fil-Southeast Asia. Pentang is also the 1,125,792nd most common first name in the world It is held by 74 people.

Pentang is most frequently occurring in The Philippines, where it is carried by 45 people, or 1 in 2,249,738. In The Philippines it is mostly concentrated in: Cordillera Administrative Region, where 78 percent reside, Calabarzon, where 18 percent reside and Bicol, where 2 percent reside. Besides The Philippines it occurs in 3 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 32 percent reside and Indonesia, where 4 percent reside.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Penthang931/
Pentan9210/
Pintang86695/
Pentane86399/
Pentong8666/
Pentean8631/
Pentann867/
Penthan862/
Pentain861/
Peuntan861/
Pentant861/
Pentahn861/
Pentand860/
Penttan860/
Penthong8053/
Paentong8032/
Puentong808/
Pientong807/
Penthane805/
Peuntong802/
Peentane801/
Penttand800/
Penthand800/
Penton7710,749/
Pentam771,226/
Pintan77124/
Pentón777/
Paenthong753,307/
Puenthong7590/
Pienthong7537/
Peunthong757/
Peuntoong751/
Pintong711,003/
Pintean71175/
Pentham71105/
Pintane7190/
Pienton7141/
Pintaun7124/
Pentone7111/
Pintain718/
Penttam718/
Penthon715/
Pennton713/
Phnthan711/
Peenton711/
Pentein711/
Piontan711/
Pemtane711/
Pinthong6715,954/
Pintasen67441/
Penthein673/
Pintasin672/
Pemthong672/
Pintoong671/
Pintahan671/
Pnton671/

Pentang Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Pentang in the Tibetan language
སྤེན་གཏང་།pentang27.03
སྤེན་བཏང་།pentang24.32
སྤེན་ཏང་།pentang10.81
སྤེན་གཏང་pentang5.41
སྤེན་སྟངས།pentang5.41
སྤེན་སྟང་།pentang5.41
དཔེན་ཏང།pentang2.7
སྤེན་བསྟང་།pentang2.7
དཔེ་ལྟང་pétang2.7
སྤན་ཏང་།pentang2.7
སྤེན་བཏང་pentang2.7
པེན་ཏང།pentang2.7
སྤེན་སྟངས་pentang2.7
པེན་ཏང་།pentang2.7

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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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  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Pentang
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