Tantong Surname
Approximately 2,835 people bear this surname
Tantong Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philippines | 2,391 | 1:42,341 | 6,717 |
| Thailand | 413 | 1:171,037 | 27,564 |
| Malaysia | 21 | 1:1,404,487 | 59,312 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Indonesia | 2 | 1:66,124,597 | 756,638 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Taiwan | 1 | 1:23,444,746 | 93,622 |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 1:9,162,273 | 135,437 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Tantong (312) may also be a first name.
Tantong Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tantong Come From? nationality or country of origin
Tantong is most common in The Philippines. It may appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Tantong? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 154,790th most frequently used surname internationally It is held by approximately 1 in 2,570,563 people. This surname occurs mostly in Asia, where 100 percent of Tantong live; 100 percent live in Southeast Asia and 44 percent live in Fil-Southeast Asia. Tantong is also the 497,456th most common forename globally, held by 312 people.
This last name is most commonly used in The Philippines, where it is held by 2,391 people, or 1 in 42,341. In The Philippines Tantong is most prevalent in: Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, where 48 percent live, Soccsksargen, where 27 percent live and Zamboanga Peninsula, where 12 percent live. Outside of The Philippines it exists in 10 countries. It is also common in Thailand, where 15 percent live and Malaysia, where 1 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 Tantong
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