Tenga Surname
Approximately 10,057 people bear this surname
Tenga Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 4,692 | 1:11,283 | 1,473 |
| DR Congo | 1,327 | 1:55,674 | 6,673 |
| Indonesia | 930 | 1:142,203 | 14,062 |
| Zimbabwe | 910 | 1:16,965 | 2,482 |
| Kenya | 497 | 1:92,917 | 8,312 |
| Japan | 291 | 1:439,327 | 13,542 |
| Uganda | 290 | 1:134,618 | 12,333 |
| Cameroon | 257 | 1:80,813 | 9,897 |
| Namibia | 228 | 1:10,568 | 2,003 |
| Papua New Guinea | 101 | 1:80,730 | 10,659 |
| United States | 90 | 1:4,027,321 | 218,060 |
| Italy | 83 | 1:736,828 | 61,221 |
| South Africa | 68 | 1:796,731 | 54,178 |
| Philippines | 65 | 1:1,557,511 | 106,526 |
| India | 60 | 1:12,784,423 | 224,716 |
| England | 26 | 1:2,143,002 | 82,017 |
| Nigeria | 18 | 1:9,841,264 | 197,192 |
| Benin | 16 | 1:645,975 | 38,126 |
| Brazil | 15 | 1:14,271,622 | 267,944 |
| Malaysia | 12 | 1:2,457,852 | 95,442 |
| Canada | 11 | 1:3,349,599 | 180,238 |
| Ghana | 9 | 1:3,002,299 | 11,581 |
| Germany | 8 | 1:10,063,182 | 283,807 |
| Norway | 8 | 1:642,786 | 47,258 |
| Pakistan | 7 | 1:25,520,555 | 84,222 |
| Congo | 5 | 1:997,819 | 17,129 |
| Togo | 4 | 1:1,811,942 | 8,122 |
| Gabon | 4 | 1:472,298 | 3,618 |
| Burkina Faso | 2 | 1:9,176,050 | 23,741 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Zambia | 1 | 1:15,849,922 | 53,989 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Sierra Leone | 1 | 1:7,089,631 | 1,533 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Cook Islands | 1 | 1:18,179 | 1,485 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Nepal | 1 | 1:28,480,956 | 22,413 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Lesotho | 1 | 1:2,032,558 | 23,402 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 1:5,637,083 | 32,436 |
| Haiti | 1 | 1:10,683,907 | 24,607 |
Tenga (3,286) may also be a first name.
Tenga Demographics
Tenga Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Tenga Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tenga Come From? nationality or country of origin
Tenga (Arabic: تنغا, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺗﻨﻚ, Hindi: तेंगा, Russian: Теньга) is found in Tanzania more than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Tenga? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 50,982nd most commonly held last name on earth. It is borne by around 1 in 724,624 people. The last name Tenga is predominantly found in Africa, where 83 percent of Tenga are found; 54 percent are found in East Africa and 53 percent are found in East Bantu Africa. Tenga is also the 124,836th most prevalent forename globally It is held by 3,286 people.
This last name is most prevalent in Tanzania, where it is held by 4,692 people, or 1 in 11,283. In Tanzania Tenga is mostly found in: Kilimanjaro Region, where 25 percent are found, Dar es Salaam Region, where 16 percent are found and Arusha Region, where 8 percent are found. Not including Tanzania it exists in 49 countries. It is also found in The DR Congo, where 13 percent are found and Indonesia, where 9 percent are found.
Tenga Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the last name is principally Muslim (69%) in Kenya.
The amount Tenga earn in different countries varies markedly. In South Africa they earn 29.16% less than the national average, earning R 168,348 per year and in United States they earn 18.08% more than the national average, earning $50,951 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Tenga Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Tenga in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺗﻨﻚ | tnk | 50 |
| ﺗﻨﺠﻪ | tnjh | 25 |
| ﺗﻨﺞ | tnj | 25 |
| Tenga in the Hindi language | ||
| तेंगा | tenga | 50 |
| टेंगा | tenga | 50 |
| Tenga in the Russian language | ||
| Теньга | tenga | - |
| Tenga in the Arabic language | ||
| تنغا | tngha | - |
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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 Tenga
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