Tongut Surname
Approximately 180 people bear this surname
Tongut Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turkey | 144 | 1:540,427 | 30,034 |
| Papua New Guinea | 35 | 1:232,963 | 32,024 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 1 | 1:5,972,654 | 99,197 |
Tongut (11) may also be a first name.
Tongut Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tongut Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Tongut is found most in Turkey. It can also occur as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Tongut? popularity and diffusion
Tongut is the 1,272,314th most commonly held family name world-wide It is held by around 1 in 40,486,366 people. This surname occurs mostly in Asia, where 74 percent of Tongut are found; 74 percent are found in West Asia and 74 percent are found in Anatolia and Highlands. It is also the 3,487,849th most numerous first name on earth, borne by 11 people.
The surname is most widely held in Turkey, where it is carried by 144 people, or 1 in 540,427. In Turkey it is most prevalent in: Diyarbakir Province, where 58 percent live, Kahramanmaras Province, where 9 percent live and Istanbul Province, where 8 percent live. Outside of Turkey this surname is found in 2 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 19 percent live and Kyrgyzstan, where 1 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 Tongut
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