Selege Surname
Approximately 299 people bear this surname
Selege Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 247 | 1:214,339 | 17,954 |
| DR Congo | 34 | 1:2,172,929 | 106,971 |
| Papua New Guinea | 9 | 1:905,969 | 94,851 |
| Brazil | 3 | 1:71,358,111 | 770,017 |
| South Africa | 3 | 1:18,059,235 | 248,362 |
| Peru | 2 | 1:15,892,062 | 51,966 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
Selege (31) may also be a first name.
Selege Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Selege Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Selege is found most frequently in Tanzania. It can also be found in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of Selege.
How Common Is The Last Name Selege? popularity and diffusion
The surname Selege is the 895,817th most widespread surname globally. It is borne by around 1 in 24,373,063 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 95 percent of Selege are found; 83 percent are found in East Africa and 83 percent are found in East Bantu Africa. Selege is also the 1,874,099th most common given name globally, held by 31 people.
The last name Selege is most numerous in Tanzania, where it is held by 247 people, or 1 in 214,339. In Tanzania Selege is most frequent in: Kigoma Region, where 97 percent reside, Tabora Region, where 2 percent reside and Arusha Region, where 0 percent reside. Beside Tanzania this last name exists in 6 countries. It also occurs in The DR Congo, where 11 percent reside and Papua New Guinea, 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 Selege
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