Tongui Surname
Approximately 176 people bear this surname
Tongui Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 93 | 1:111,136 | 12,439 |
| Cameroon | 25 | 1:830,763 | 57,125 |
| Ivory Coast | 21 | 1:1,098,630 | 25,989 |
| Niger | 18 | 1:1,066,223 | 23,213 |
| Congo | 9 | 1:554,344 | 12,633 |
| Papua New Guinea | 6 | 1:1,358,953 | 118,663 |
| Angola | 1 | 1:26,989,214 | 11,853 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
Tongui (112) may also be a first name.
Tongui Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tongui Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Tongui is more commonly found in Benin than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Tongui? popularity and diffusion
The last name Tongui is the 1,290,735th most numerous last name in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 41,406,511 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 84 percent of Tongui reside; 77 percent reside in West Africa and 53 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Tongui is also the 885,979th most frequent first name internationally It is held by 112 people.
This surname is most frequently used in Benin, where it is carried by 93 people, or 1 in 111,136. In Benin it is mostly found in: Borgou Department, where 84 percent live, Atlantique Department, where 11 percent live and Atakora Department, where 2 percent live. Beside Benin it is found in 9 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 14 percent live and The Ivory Coast, where 12 percent live.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Tongui
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