Ponah Surname
Approximately 28 people bear this surname
Ponah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 22 | 1:6,011,327 | 267,290 |
| Pakistan | 4 | 1:44,660,971 | 115,884 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Ponah (958) may also be a first name.
Ponah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ponah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Ponah is more commonly found in Indonesia than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Ponah? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 3,730,171st most frequently used family name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by around 1 in 260,269,497 people. This surname occurs mostly in Asia, where 96 percent of Ponah live; 82 percent live in Southeast Asia and 82 percent live in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia. Ponah is also the 260,722nd most common forename worldwide, borne by 958 people.
This surname is most frequent in Indonesia, where it is carried by 22 people, or 1 in 6,011,327. In Indonesia it is primarily concentrated in: West Sulawesi, where 32 percent live, South Sumatra, where 27 percent live and West Java, where 23 percent live. Aside from Indonesia it exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in Pakistan, where 14 percent live and Malaysia, where 4 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
- 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 Ponah
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