Tengay Surname
Approximately 149 people bear this surname
Tengay Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philippines | 116 | 1:872,743 | 80,276 |
| Liberia | 29 | 1:152,018 | 10,911 |
| Bhutan | 1 | 1:616,039 | 1,715 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 4 | 1:6,093,842 | 135,151 |
The alternate forms: Teñgay (4) are calculated separately.
Tengay (43) may also be a first name.
Tengay Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tengay Come From? nationality or country of origin
Tengay (Russian: Тенгай, Tibetan: བསྟན་རྒྱས།) is more frequently found in The Philippines than any other country/territory. It can also appear as: Teñgay. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Tengay? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 1,441,361st most prevalent surname internationally, borne by approximately 1 in 48,909,704 people. The last name is predominantly found in Asia, where 79 percent of Tengay reside; 78 percent reside in Southeast Asia and 78 percent reside in Fil-Southeast Asia. Tengay is also the 1,545,828th most numerous first name at a global level, borne by 43 people.
Tengay is most numerous in The Philippines, where it is held by 116 people, or 1 in 872,743. In The Philippines Tengay is most common in: Cordillera Administrative Region, where 86 percent reside, Cagayan Valley, where 11 percent reside and Ilocos, where 2 percent reside. Not including The Philippines this last name occurs in 5 countries. It is also common in Liberia, where 19 percent reside and Bhutan, where 1 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Tengay Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Tengay in the Tibetan language | ||
| བསྟན་རྒྱས། | tengyé | 46.15 |
| བསྟན་རྒྱས་ | tengyé | 30.77 |
| རྟེན་རྒྱས། | tengyé | 15.38 |
| རྟེན་རྒྱས་ | tengyé | 7.69 |
| Tengay in the Russian language | ||
| Тенгай | tengaj | - |
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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 Tengay
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