Tangah Surname
Approximately 529 people bear this surname
Tangah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malaysia | 288 | 1:102,411 | 6,993 |
| Indonesia | 103 | 1:1,283,973 | 89,572 |
| Cameroon | 91 | 1:228,232 | 22,810 |
| Israel | 19 | 1:450,402 | 34,739 |
| Benin | 14 | 1:738,257 | 40,906 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Nigeria | 3 | 1:59,047,586 | 507,603 |
| Brunei | 2 | 1:209,366 | 3,098 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
Tangah (67) may also be a first name.
Tangah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tangah Come From? nationality or country of origin
Tangah occurs most in Malaysia. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Tangah? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 590,101st most frequently used surname worldwide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 13,776,079 people. This last name is predominantly found in Asia, where 78 percent of Tangah are found; 74 percent are found in Southeast Asia and 74 percent are found in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia. It is also the 1,191,548th most frequently used first name throughout the world It is held by 67 people.
This surname is most frequently used in Malaysia, where it is borne by 288 people, or 1 in 102,411. In Malaysia it is primarily found in: Sabah, where 81 percent live, Labuan, where 9 percent live and Sarawak, where 7 percent live. Without taking into account Malaysia this surname is found in 12 countries. It is also found in Indonesia, where 19 percent live and Cameroon, where 17 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 Tangah
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