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 borne by more people in The Philippines than any other country or territory. It can also occur as a variant: Teñgay. Click here for further possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Tengay? popularity and diffusion
The surname Tengay is the 1,441,361st most frequent family name in the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 48,909,704 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Asia, where 79 percent of Tengay reside; 78 percent reside in Southeast Asia and 78 percent reside in Fil-Southeast Asia. It is also the 1,545,828th most frequently occurring first name world-wide It is held by 43 people.
The last name is most commonly held in The Philippines, where it is held by 116 people, or 1 in 872,743. In The Philippines Tengay is primarily found in: Cordillera Administrative Region, where 86 percent live, Cagayan Valley, where 11 percent live and Ilocos, where 2 percent live. Outside of The Philippines this surname exists in 5 countries. It is also common in Liberia, where 19 percent live and Bhutan, where 1 percent live.
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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- 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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