Samalang Surname
Approximately 205 people bear this surname
Samalang Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 200 | 1:661,246 | 51,715 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Samalang (59) may also be a first name.
Samalang Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Samalang Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Samalang is found most in Indonesia. It may also appear as:. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Samalang? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,163,787th most commonly used last name internationally. It is borne by around 1 in 35,549,004 people. This surname occurs mostly in Asia, where 99 percent of Samalang live; 99 percent live in Southeast Asia and 99 percent live in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia. Samalang is also the 1,282,666th most widely held forename internationally, held by 59 people.
The last name Samalang is most numerous in Indonesia, where it is borne by 200 people, or 1 in 661,246. In Indonesia Samalang is most common in: North Sulawesi, where 92 percent reside, Gorontalo, where 5 percent reside and Central Sulawesi, where 4 percent reside. Other than Indonesia this last name occurs in 5 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 0 percent reside and Malaysia, where 0 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 Samalang
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