Potga Surname
Approximately 63 people bear this surname
Potga Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 61 | 1:340,477 | 30,746 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
Potga Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Potga Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Potga is held by more people in Cameroon than any other country or territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of Potga.
How Common Is The Last Name Potga? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 2,414,640th most commonly used family name on a worldwide basis, held by around 1 in 115,675,332 people. This surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 97 percent of Potga live; 97 percent live in Central Africa and 97 percent live in Central Bantu Africa.
The surname Potga is most frequent in Cameroon, where it is held by 61 people, or 1 in 340,477. In Cameroon it is mostly concentrated in: Centre Region, where 54 percent reside and Littoral Region, where 46 percent reside. Excluding Cameroon it occurs in one country. It also occurs in France, where 3 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 Potga
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