Plange Surname
Approximately 6,959 people bear this surname
Plange Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 6,442 | 1:4,194 | 599 |
| United States | 142 | 1:2,552,528 | 155,105 |
| England | 125 | 1:445,744 | 29,621 |
| Philippines | 76 | 1:1,332,082 | 99,105 |
| Germany | 44 | 1:1,829,670 | 103,431 |
| Jamaica | 18 | 1:159,442 | 5,298 |
| Hungary | 12 | 1:818,023 | 42,199 |
| Brazil | 11 | 1:19,461,303 | 329,560 |
| Australia | 10 | 1:2,699,570 | 109,631 |
| France | 9 | 1:7,380,302 | 306,885 |
| Netherlands | 7 | 1:2,412,454 | 94,797 |
| Denmark | 6 | 1:940,786 | 47,603 |
| Liberia | 6 | 1:734,756 | 29,369 |
| Wales | 5 | 1:618,906 | 25,852 |
| Nigeria | 5 | 1:35,428,552 | 388,973 |
| South Africa | 4 | 1:13,544,426 | 222,367 |
| Ethiopia | 4 | 1:24,386,566 | 19,165 |
| Canada | 4 | 1:9,211,398 | 321,528 |
| India | 3 | 1:255,688,461 | 1,306,352 |
| Kenya | 3 | 1:15,393,300 | 77,493 |
| Romania | 3 | 1:6,692,623 | 78,504 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 1:4,106,458 | 122,336 |
| Austria | 2 | 1:4,257,718 | 99,224 |
| Thailand | 2 | 1:35,319,172 | 966,191 |
| Papua New Guinea | 2 | 1:4,076,858 | 165,791 |
| Norway | 2 | 1:2,571,143 | 95,402 |
| Iceland | 2 | 1:190,045 | 6,825 |
| China | 2 | 1:683,660,783 | 30,601 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 1:10,043,737 | 422,899 |
The alternate forms: Plañge (17) & Plânge (1) are calculated separately.
Plange (226) may also be a first name.
Plange Demographics
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Plange Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Plange Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Plange (Marathi: पलंगे) is found in Ghana more than any other country/territory. It may also appear in the variant forms: Plañge or Plânge. For other possible spellings of Plange click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Plange? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 71,011th most commonly occurring last name on a global scale. It is borne by around 1 in 1,047,212 people. Plange occurs mostly in Africa, where 93 percent of Plange live; 93 percent live in West Africa and 93 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 598,137th most commonly occurring first name at a global level. It is borne by 226 people.
This last name is most frequently occurring in Ghana, where it is held by 6,442 people, or 1 in 4,194. Excluding Ghana this surname exists in 33 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 2 percent reside and England, where 2 percent reside.
Plange Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Plange has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Plange surname grew 2,840 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Plange Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Plange surname are 18.77% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than The US average, with 72% being registered with the party.
The amount Plange earn in different countries varies greatly. In United States they earn 2.77% more than the national average, earning $44,344 USD per year and in Canada they earn 48.81% less than the national average, earning $25,434 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Plange Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Plange in the Marathi language | ||
| पलंगे | palange | - |
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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 Plange
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