Shelegia Surname
Approximately 237 people bear this surname
Shelegia Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 135 | 1:27,745 | 4,460 |
| Abkhazia | 94 | 1:2,584 | 598 |
| Russia | 7 | 1:20,589,008 | 462,339 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
Shelegia Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Shelegia Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Shelegia (Georgian: შელეგია) is borne by more people in Georgia than any other country or territory. It can also be found in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Shelegia? popularity and diffusion
It is the 1,055,483rd most commonly held surname world-wide It is held by around 1 in 30,749,139 people. The surname is predominantly found in Asia, where 97 percent of Shelegia reside; 97 percent reside in West Asia and 57 percent reside in Kartvelo-West Asia.
This last name is most widely held in Georgia, where it is held by 135 people, or 1 in 27,745. In Georgia Shelegia is primarily found in: Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti, where 52 percent live, Tbilisi, where 44 percent live and Kvemo Kartli, where 2 percent live. Barring Georgia this last name occurs in 3 countries. It is also common in Abkhazia, where 40 percent live and Russia, where 3 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Shelegia Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Shelegia in the Georgian language | ||
| შელეგია | shelegia | - |
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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 Shelegia
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