Tengai Surname
Approximately 24 people bear this surname
Tengai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zimbabwe | 14 | 1:1,102,731 | 66,551 |
| Indonesia | 4 | 1:33,062,298 | 643,618 |
| Iran | 2 | 1:38,391,262 | 236,033 |
| Papua New Guinea | 2 | 1:4,076,858 | 165,791 |
| Solomon Islands | 2 | 1:290,014 | 19,875 |
Tengai (316) may also be a first name.
Tengai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tengai Come From? nationality or country of origin
Tengai (Hindi: टेंगई) is held by more people in Zimbabwe than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered as:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Tengai? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 4,034,050th most commonly used family name in the world. It is borne by around 1 in 303,647,746 people. It is mostly found in Africa, where 58 percent of Tengai reside; 58 percent reside in Southern Africa and 58 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. Tengai is also the 494,051st most frequently occurring first name on earth, borne by 316 people.
The surname Tengai is most prevalent in Zimbabwe, where it is borne by 14 people, or 1 in 1,102,731. In Zimbabwe Tengai is most frequent in: Manicaland Province, where 50 percent live, Masvingo Province, where 43 percent live and Harare Province, where 7 percent live. Without taking into account Zimbabwe this surname exists in 4 countries. It also occurs in Indonesia, where 17 percent live and Iran, where 8 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Tengai Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Tengai in the Hindi language | ||
| टेंगई | tenga'i | - |
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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 Tengai
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