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
The surname Taruona is held by more people in Zimbabwe than any other country or territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Taruona? popularity and diffusion
Taruona is the 312,624th most commonly occurring last name internationally, borne by approximately 1 in 6,057,810 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 98 percent of Taruona are found; 98 percent are found in Southern Africa and 98 percent are found in South Bantu Africa. Taruona is also the 319,366th most common first name world-wide, borne by 674 people.
Taruona is most commonly used in Zimbabwe, where it is held by 1,174 people, or 1 in 13,150. In Zimbabwe Taruona is most numerous in: Midlands Province, where 24 percent live, Harare Province, where 21 percent live and Manicaland Province, where 17 percent live. Outside of Zimbabwe this surname occurs in 4 countries. It is also common 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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