Tongwang Surname

3,543,123rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 31 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Taiwan
Highest density in:
Taiwan

Tongwang Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Tongwang Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Taiwan231:1,019,3377,080
Thailand61:11,773,058553,295
Cameroon11:20,769,068227,406
China11:1,367,321,56651,149

Tongwang (3,692) may also be a first name.

Tongwang Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Tongwang Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Tongwang is held by more people in Taiwan than any other country or territory. It may occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Tongwang? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 3,543,123rd most widespread surname worldwide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 235,082,126 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Asia, where 97 percent of Tongwang reside; 77 percent reside in East Asia and 77 percent reside in Sino-East Asia. Tongwang is also the 116,073rd most frequently held first name in the world, borne by 3,692 people.

The surname is most common in Taiwan, where it is borne by 23 people, or 1 in 1,019,337. In Taiwan it is mostly found in: Taichung City, where 65 percent are found, Hsinchu City, where 13 percent are found and Taoyuan City, where 13 percent are found. Barring Taiwan this last name exists in 3 countries. It is also found in Thailand, where 19 percent are found and Cameroon, where 3 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
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Tongwang
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