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 surname Selege is more commonly found in Tanzania than any other country or territory. It may be found as a variant:. For other possible spellings of Selege click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Selege? popularity and diffusion
The surname Selege is the 895,817th most widely held family name globally, borne by around 1 in 24,373,063 people. This surname is primarily found in Africa, where 95 percent of Selege live; 83 percent live in East Africa and 83 percent live in East Bantu Africa. Selege is also the 1,874,099th most frequently occurring first name in the world. It is borne by 31 people.
It is most commonly occurring in Tanzania, where it is borne by 247 people, or 1 in 214,339. In Tanzania Selege is most prevalent in: Kigoma Region, where 97 percent reside, Tabora Region, where 2 percent reside and Arusha Region, where 0 percent reside. Apart from Tanzania it 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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