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
Songea is most common in Tanzania. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Songea? popularity and diffusion
The last name Songea is the 468,258th most frequently used last name in the world, borne by approximately 1 in 10,149,785 people. The last name Songea occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Songea reside; 70 percent reside in East Africa and 70 percent reside in East Bantu Africa. Songea is also the 2,900,335th most frequently occurring given name world-wide, held by 15 people.
The surname is most numerous in Tanzania, where it is held by 504 people, or 1 in 105,043. In Tanzania Songea is mostly concentrated in: Lindi Region, where 52 percent reside, Mtwara Region, where 19 percent reside and Ruvuma Region, where 13 percent reside. Outside of Tanzania this surname occurs in 9 countries. It is also found in Malawi, where 25 percent reside and The DR Congo, where 3 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 Songea
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