Pongwana Surname

596,518th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 522 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
South Africa
Highest density in:
South Africa

Pongwana Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Pongwana Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
South Africa5211:103,98812,572
England11:55,718,059489,080

Pongwana Last Name Facts

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

The surname Pongwana is found in South Africa more than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Pongwana? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 596,518th most commonly held surname world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 13,960,816 people. The surname Pongwana is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Pongwana live; 100 percent live in Southern Africa and 100 percent live in South Bantu Africa.

This surname is most frequently occurring in South Africa, where it is held by 521 people, or 1 in 103,988. In South Africa Pongwana is mostly concentrated in: Eastern Cape, where 61 percent are found, Western Cape, where 17 percent are found and Gauteng, where 10 percent are found. Barring South Africa this last name occurs in one country. It also occurs in England, where 0 percent are found.

Pongwana Last Name Statistics demography

Pongwana earn a lot less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 49.94% less than the national average, earning R 118,956 per year.

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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 Pongwana
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