Tongea Surname
Approximately 44 people bear this surname
Tongea Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 36 | 1:226,492 | 31,172 |
| Canada | 6 | 1:6,140,932 | 260,641 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Solomon Islands | 1 | 1:580,029 | 22,243 |
Tongea Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tongea Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Tongea is found most in Papua New Guinea. It may appear as:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Tongea? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 2,944,094th most frequently occurring surname internationally, held by approximately 1 in 165,626,044 people. The surname occurs mostly in Oceania, where 84 percent of Tongea are found; 84 percent are found in Oceania Islands and 82 percent are found in Papuan Oceania.
This surname is most frequent in Papua New Guinea, where it is carried by 36 people, or 1 in 226,492. In Papua New Guinea Tongea is most common in: Morobe, where 86 percent are found and Enga, where 14 percent are found. Beside Papua New Guinea this last name is found in 3 countries. It is also common in Canada, where 14 percent are found and Nigeria, where 2 percent are found.
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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
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