Somanga Surname
Approximately 408 people bear this surname
Somanga Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 397 | 1:133,354 | 12,432 |
| Nigeria | 9 | 1:19,682,529 | 291,344 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Somanga (33) may also be a first name.
Somanga Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Somanga Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Somanga occurs most in Tanzania. It can appear as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Somanga? popularity and diffusion
Somanga is the 716,247th most widely held surname internationally It is held by approximately 1 in 17,861,632 people. This last name is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Somanga are found; 97 percent are found in East Africa and 97 percent are found in East Bantu Africa. Somanga is also the 1,807,719th most frequently used first name on earth It is held by 33 people.
The last name Somanga is most commonly occurring in Tanzania, where it is carried by 397 people, or 1 in 133,354. In Tanzania Somanga is most common in: Mtwara Region, where 95 percent are found, Arusha Region, where 2 percent are found and Dar es Salaam Region, where 1 percent are found. Excluding Tanzania it occurs in 3 countries. It is also common in Nigeria, where 2 percent are found and The Ivory Coast, where 0 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
- 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 Somanga
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