Sirongo Surname
Approximately 652 people bear this surname
Sirongo Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Namibia | 584 | 1:4,126 | 758 |
| Papua New Guinea | 61 | 1:133,667 | 18,337 |
| South Africa | 5 | 1:10,835,541 | 204,227 |
| Indonesia | 2 | 1:66,124,597 | 756,638 |
Sirongo Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sirongo Come From? nationality or country of origin
Sirongo is carried by more people in Namibia than any other country or territory. It may also be found in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Sirongo? popularity and diffusion
Sirongo is the 503,825th most frequently held family name worldwide, held by around 1 in 11,177,218 people. The surname Sirongo is primarily found in Africa, where 90 percent of Sirongo reside; 90 percent reside in Southern Africa and 90 percent reside in South Bantu Africa.
The surname Sirongo is most frequently used in Namibia, where it is held by 584 people, or 1 in 4,126. In Namibia it is most numerous in: Kavango East Region, where 60 percent live, Kavango West Region, where 29 percent live and Erongo Region, where 10 percent live. Without taking into account Namibia it occurs in 3 countries. It is also found in Papua New Guinea, where 9 percent live and South Africa, where 1 percent live.
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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 Sirongo
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