Songea Surname
Approximately 718 people bear this surname
Songea Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 504 | 1:105,043 | 10,238 |
| Malawi | 183 | 1:93,547 | 11,397 |
| DR Congo | 21 | 1:3,518,075 | 145,665 |
| Papua New Guinea | 4 | 1:2,038,429 | 140,827 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
Songea (15) may also be a first name.
Songea Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Songea Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Songea is more frequently found in Tanzania than any other country or territory. It may appear in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Songea? popularity and diffusion
It is the 468,258th most commonly occurring family name globally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 10,149,785 people. The surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Songea reside; 70 percent reside in East Africa and 70 percent reside in East Bantu Africa. It is also the 2,900,335th most commonly used first name worldwide. It is borne by 15 people.
It is most commonly held in Tanzania, where it is held by 504 people, or 1 in 105,043. In Tanzania it is mostly found in: Lindi Region, where 52 percent live, Mtwara Region, where 19 percent live and Ruvuma Region, where 13 percent live. Besides Tanzania this last name is found in 9 countries. It also occurs in Malawi, where 25 percent live and The DR Congo, where 3 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 Songea
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