Tangya Surname

2,530,696th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 58 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
Cameroon

Tangya Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Tangya Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nigeria291:6,108,371148,179
Cameroon231:903,00360,285
Thailand21:35,319,172966,191
Belgium11:11,496,644167,539
China11:1,367,321,56651,149
India11:767,065,3821,851,717
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Tangya (67) may also be a first name.

Tangya Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Tangya Come From? nationality or country of origin

Tangya (Bengali: তাংয়া, Marathi: टांग्या) occurs in Nigeria more than any other country/territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of Tangya.

How Common Is The Last Name Tangya? popularity and diffusion

Tangya is the 2,530,696th most prevalent surname on a global scale, held by approximately 1 in 125,647,343 people. The last name Tangya occurs predominantly in Africa, where 90 percent of Tangya live; 50 percent live in West Africa and 50 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,191,548th most widely held first name internationally It is held by 67 people.

Tangya is most frequently held in Nigeria, where it is carried by 29 people, or 1 in 6,108,371. In Nigeria it is mostly found in: Plateau, where 97 percent are found and Kaduna, where 3 percent are found. Excluding Nigeria Tangya occurs in 6 countries. It is also found in Cameroon, where 40 percent are found and Thailand, where 3 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Thangya925/
Tangyai924/
Thangyai862/
Tandya83102/
Tongya8384/
Thongya771,077/
Tandyah77113/
Tongyai77107/
Tangyou7712/
Tangyoo774/
Thongyai712,524/
Tandaiya7124/
Tandayya7116/
Toongyai716/
Thangyoo711/
Taungyoo711/
Taingyoo711/
Thongyay711/
Tanduyia711/
Tandia6721,863/
Tandja67818/
Tandyo67489/
Tandea67370/
Tongyo673/
Tandaiyah671/

Tangya Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Tangya in the Bengali language
তাংয়াtanya50
তংায়াtamaya50
Tangya in the Marathi language
टांग्याtangya50
तंग्याtangya23.08
तांग्याtangya15.38
टंग्याtangya7.69
तगैयाtagaiya3.85

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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
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  • 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 Tangya
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