Tontie Surname
Approximately 9 people bear this surname
Tontie Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 6 | 1:9,029,617 | 189,736 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
Tontie (106) may also be a first name.
Tontie Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tontie Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Tontie is found in South Africa more than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Tontie click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Tontie? popularity and diffusion
It is the 6,360,413th most frequently held surname world-wide, borne by approximately 1 in 809,727,324 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 78 percent of Tontie live; 67 percent live in Southern Africa and 67 percent live in South Bantu Africa. Tontie is also the 915,176th most frequent first name worldwide It is held by 106 people.
The last name is most frequently used in South Africa, where it is borne by 6 people, or 1 in 9,029,617. In South Africa it is most frequent in: Free State, where 100 percent reside. Not including South Africa this last name occurs in 3 countries. It is also common in Cameroon, where 11 percent reside and India, where 11 percent reside.
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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 Tontie
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