Seleng Surname
Approximately 488 people bear this surname
Seleng Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 227 | 1:582,596 | 46,553 |
| Papua New Guinea | 181 | 1:45,048 | 5,552 |
| India | 64 | 1:11,985,397 | 216,293 |
| Thailand | 5 | 1:14,127,669 | 603,945 |
| Malaysia | 4 | 1:7,373,556 | 230,001 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Slovakia | 1 | 1:5,336,450 | 140,422 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
The alternate forms: Šeleng (46) are calculated separately.
Seleng (367) may also be a first name.
Seleng Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Seleng Come From? nationality or country of origin
Seleng occurs most in Indonesia. It may also be rendered in the variant forms: Šeleng. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Seleng? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 627,290th most frequent family name on a worldwide basis, held by around 1 in 14,933,496 people. It occurs predominantly in Asia, where 59 percent of Seleng are found; 46 percent are found in Southeast Asia and 45 percent are found in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia. It is also the 453,982nd most commonly held first name worldwide, borne by 367 people.
The last name is most common in Indonesia, where it is held by 227 people, or 1 in 582,596. In Indonesia Seleng is most numerous in: South Sulawesi, where 57 percent are found, Bali, where 15 percent are found and West Kalimantan, where 11 percent are found. Besides Indonesia it occurs in 10 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 37 percent are found and India, where 13 percent are found.
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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 Seleng
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