Samong Surname
Approximately 2,042 people bear this surname
Samong Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philippines | 1,212 | 1:83,530 | 14,470 |
| Thailand | 405 | 1:174,416 | 28,221 |
| Cambodia | 331 | 1:46,789 | 1,786 |
| Papua New Guinea | 44 | 1:185,312 | 25,733 |
| Indonesia | 20 | 1:6,612,460 | 283,723 |
| Malaysia | 16 | 1:1,843,389 | 74,511 |
| Botswana | 4 | 1:546,732 | 22,624 |
| Taiwan | 3 | 1:7,814,915 | 41,694 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 1:25,109,342 | 694,541 |
Samong (983) may also be a first name.
Samong Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Samong Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Samong is borne by more people in The Philippines than any other country or territory. It can be found as:. Click here for further potential spellings of Samong.
How Common Is The Last Name Samong? popularity and diffusion
The surname Samong is the 203,734th most commonly held surname at a global level. It is borne by around 1 in 3,568,828 people. This surname occurs mostly in Asia, where 97 percent of Samong live; 97 percent live in Southeast Asia and 57 percent live in Fil-Southeast Asia. Samong is also the 256,947th most numerous first name globally, borne by 983 people.
This surname is most frequently occurring in The Philippines, where it is borne by 1,212 people, or 1 in 83,530. In The Philippines Samong is primarily concentrated in: Eastern Visayas, where 30 percent reside, Davao Region, where 21 percent reside and National Capital Region, where 13 percent reside. Apart from The Philippines this last name is found in 14 countries. It also occurs in Thailand, where 20 percent reside and Cambodia, where 16 percent reside.
Samong Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Samong has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Samong last name declined 50 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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 Samong
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