Shanghai Surname
Approximately 362 people bear this surname
Shanghai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| China | 314 | 1:4,354,527 | 434 |
| Cambodia | 13 | 1:1,191,319 | 5,802 |
| Indonesia | 7 | 1:18,892,742 | 520,071 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 7 | 1:194,854 | 9,403 |
| India | 5 | 1:153,413,076 | 951,030 |
| Kenya | 4 | 1:11,544,975 | 62,419 |
| Thailand | 4 | 1:17,659,586 | 685,799 |
| Taiwan | 3 | 1:7,814,915 | 41,694 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Zambia | 1 | 1:15,849,922 | 53,989 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 7 | 1:7,174,098 | 302,835 |
Shanghai (27,156) may also be a first name.
Shanghai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Shanghai Come From? nationality or country of origin
Shanghai is found most frequently in China. It may be found in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Shanghai? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 781,947th most frequently used last name world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 20,131,342 people. The surname is predominantly found in Asia, where 96 percent of Shanghai reside; 88 percent reside in East Asia and 88 percent reside in Sino-East Asia. Shanghai is also the 30,066th most commonly held first name throughout the world. It is borne by 27,156 people.
The last name Shanghai is most commonly occurring in China, where it is carried by 314 people, or 1 in 4,354,527. Besides China this last name occurs in 11 countries. It also occurs in Cambodia, where 4 percent reside and Indonesia, where 2 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 Shanghai
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