Tauranga Surname
Approximately 95 people bear this surname
Tauranga Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand | 82 | 1:55,223 | 8,747 |
| Australia | 12 | 1:2,249,642 | 97,973 |
| Cook Islands | 1 | 1:18,179 | 1,485 |
Tauranga (47) may also be a first name.
Tauranga Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tauranga Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Tauranga is carried by more people in New Zealand than any other country/territory. It can occur as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Tauranga? popularity and diffusion
The surname Tauranga is the 1,907,068th most commonly held family name globally It is held by around 1 in 76,711,010 people. This last name occurs mostly in Oceania, where 100 percent of Tauranga reside; 99 percent reside in Australasia and 99 percent reside in Australia and New Zealand. It is also the 1,467,136th most prevalent first name worldwide, borne by 47 people.
The surname Tauranga is most commonly used in New Zealand, where it is held by 82 people, or 1 in 55,223. In New Zealand Tauranga is mostly found in: Bay of Plenty Region, where 60 percent live, Waikato Region, where 16 percent live and Auckland Region, where 15 percent live. Without taking into account New Zealand it is found in 2 countries. It is also common in Australia, where 13 percent live and The Cook Islands, 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 Tauranga
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