Taruona Surname
Approximately 1,203 people bear this surname
Taruona Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zimbabwe | 1,174 | 1:13,150 | 1,788 |
| Papua New Guinea | 24 | 1:339,738 | 45,241 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Taruona (674) may also be a first name.
Taruona Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Taruona Come From? nationality or country of origin
Taruona occurs most in Zimbabwe. It can occur as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Taruona click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Taruona? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 312,624th most widely held last name globally, borne by approximately 1 in 6,057,810 people. It occurs predominantly in Africa, where 98 percent of Taruona live; 98 percent live in Southern Africa and 98 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 319,366th most commonly occurring forename worldwide, held by 674 people.
This surname is most frequently held in Zimbabwe, where it is borne by 1,174 people, or 1 in 13,150. In Zimbabwe Taruona is primarily found in: Midlands Province, where 24 percent live, Harare Province, where 21 percent live and Manicaland Province, where 17 percent live. Without taking into account Zimbabwe Taruona occurs in 4 countries. It is also found in Papua New Guinea, where 2 percent live and England, where 0 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 Taruona
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