Tongo Surname
Approximately 11,695 people bear this surname
Tongo Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 2,456 | 1:30,081 | 3,773 |
| Congo | 1,846 | 1:2,703 | 448 |
| Cameroon | 1,534 | 1:13,539 | 1,850 |
| Peru | 1,340 | 1:23,719 | 2,646 |
| Nigeria | 658 | 1:269,214 | 15,356 |
| Philippines | 654 | 1:154,799 | 25,689 |
| South Africa | 625 | 1:86,684 | 10,659 |
| Tanzania | 430 | 1:123,120 | 11,660 |
| Papua New Guinea | 393 | 1:20,747 | 2,207 |
| Ghana | 346 | 1:78,094 | 7,799 |
| Gabon | 202 | 1:9,352 | 1,744 |
| Zimbabwe | 201 | 1:76,807 | 11,322 |
| Uganda | 132 | 1:295,752 | 20,635 |
| Niger | 110 | 1:174,473 | 6,193 |
| Indonesia | 97 | 1:1,363,394 | 93,839 |
| Ivory Coast | 85 | 1:271,426 | 10,543 |
| Brazil | 78 | 1:2,744,543 | 81,769 |
| United States | 73 | 1:4,965,191 | 254,179 |
| Zambia | 66 | 1:240,150 | 14,690 |
| Burkina Faso | 53 | 1:346,266 | 5,749 |
| Turkey | 42 | 1:1,852,891 | 66,380 |
| India | 40 | 1:19,176,635 | 286,670 |
| England | 39 | 1:1,428,668 | 62,556 |
| Mexico | 22 | 1:5,642,100 | 30,806 |
| Namibia | 21 | 1:114,733 | 9,093 |
| Mauritania | 19 | 1:215,519 | 10,553 |
| Angola | 16 | 1:1,686,826 | 3,823 |
| France | 13 | 1:5,109,440 | 259,941 |
| Thailand | 12 | 1:5,886,529 | 390,733 |
| Germany | 11 | 1:7,318,678 | 235,042 |
| Solomon Islands | 10 | 1:58,003 | 11,702 |
| Chile | 9 | 1:1,957,386 | 29,026 |
| Benin | 8 | 1:1,291,950 | 54,095 |
| United Arab Emirates | 6 | 1:1,527,046 | 51,993 |
| Qatar | 6 | 1:393,000 | 55,922 |
| Kenya | 5 | 1:9,235,980 | 55,978 |
| Morocco | 4 | 1:8,619,025 | 73,251 |
| Chad | 4 | 1:3,398,050 | 7,703 |
| Guatemala | 2 | 1:8,041,334 | 9,698 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| Canada | 2 | 1:18,422,796 | 409,488 |
| Taiwan | 2 | 1:11,722,373 | 63,559 |
| Italy | 2 | 1:30,578,344 | 160,757 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| Armenia | 1 | 1:2,930,180 | 22,770 |
| Kiribati | 1 | 1:113,407 | 1,341 |
| Mozambique | 1 | 1:27,261,569 | 7,432 |
| Malawi | 1 | 1:17,119,109 | 34,144 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Croatia | 1 | 1:4,228,604 | 99,289 |
| Monaco | 1 | 1:37,066 | 4,748 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| South Sudan | 1 | 1:11,415,076 | 3,182 |
| South Korea | 1 | 1:51,240,256 | 8,015 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 2 | 1:12,187,685 | 173,419 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 6 | 1:8,369,781 | 355,680 |
The alternate forms: Toñgo (47) are calculated separately.
Tongo (1,344) may also be a first name.
Tongo Demographics
Average Tongo Salary in
United States
$43,699 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Tongo Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tongo Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Tongo (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺗﻮﻧﻜﻮ, Russian: Тонго) is found most frequently in The DR Congo. It can be found as a variant: Toñgo. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Tongo? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 44,404th most widely held surname in the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 623,133 people. The surname Tongo occurs predominantly in Africa, where 75 percent of Tongo are found; 51 percent are found in Central Africa and 49 percent are found in Central Bantu Africa. Tongo is also the 214,184th most widely held first name globally. It is borne by 1,344 people.
The surname is most common in The DR Congo, where it is borne by 2,456 people, or 1 in 30,081. Not including The DR Congo Tongo occurs in 60 countries. It is also common in The Congo, where 16 percent live and Cameroon, where 13 percent live.
Tongo Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Tongo has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Tongo surname rose 1,217 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it rose 1,950 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Tongo Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Tongo last name are 7.78% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 54.55% being registered with the party.
The amount Tongo earn in different countries varies markedly. In Peru they earn 34.93% less than the national average, earning S/. 12,614 per year; in South Africa they earn 39.7% less than the national average, earning R 143,304 per year and in United States they earn 1.27% more than the national average, earning $43,699 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Tongo Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Tongo in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺗﻮﻧﻜﻮ | twnkw | - |
| Tongo in the Russian language | ||
| Тонго | tongo | - |
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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 Tongo
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