Sangka Surname
Approximately 2,348 people bear this surname
Sangka Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 1,550 | 1:85,322 | 8,966 |
| Thailand | 489 | 1:144,455 | 22,677 |
| Philippines | 234 | 1:432,642 | 53,869 |
| Malaysia | 44 | 1:670,323 | 31,889 |
| Tanzania | 14 | 1:3,781,544 | 51,645 |
| Taiwan | 12 | 1:1,953,729 | 12,642 |
| Sweden | 3 | 1:3,282,252 | 190,759 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
Sangka (1,540) may also be a first name.
Sangka Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sangka Come From? nationality or country of origin
Sangka (Bengali: সংকরানী, Tibetan: སངས་དཀའ།) is more commonly found in Indonesia than any other country/territory. It may appear in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Sangka.
How Common Is The Last Name Sangka? popularity and diffusion
The last name Sangka is the 181,314th most frequently held family name internationally It is held by approximately 1 in 3,103,725 people. This surname is primarily found in Asia, where 99 percent of Sangka reside; 98 percent reside in Southeast Asia and 74 percent reside in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia. Sangka is also the 197,593rd most widely held given name worldwide. It is borne by 1,540 people.
The last name Sangka is most commonly used in Indonesia, where it is borne by 1,550 people, or 1 in 85,322. In Indonesia Sangka is mostly found in: South Sulawesi, where 34 percent are found, Bali, where 15 percent are found and West Java, where 7 percent are found. Aside from Indonesia this last name occurs in 8 countries. It is also common in Thailand, where 21 percent are found and The Philippines, where 10 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Sangka Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Sangka in the Bengali language | ||
| সংকরানী | sankarani | 50 |
| শংকমালা | sankamala | 50 |
| Sangka in the Tibetan language | ||
| སངས་དཀའ། | sangka | 33.33 |
| སང་ཀ་ | sangka | 33.33 |
| གསང་ཀ། | sangka | 33.33 |
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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
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- 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 Sangka
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