van Sang Surname

6,063,924th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 10 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Malaysia
Highest density in:
Malaysia

van Sang Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

van Sang Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Malaysia71:4,213,461150,293
United States21:181,229,4661,556,795
Germany11:80,505,459560,955

van Sang (31) may also be a first name.

van Sang Last Name Facts

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

The surname van Sang is borne by more people in Malaysia than any other country or territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name van Sang? popularity and diffusion

It is the 6,063,924th most commonly occurring family name on a global scale, held by approximately 1 in 728,754,592 people. The last name van Sang occurs predominantly in Asia, where 70 percent of van Sang are found; 70 percent are found in Southeast Asia and 70 percent are found in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia. It is also the 1,874,099th most widely held first name on earth, borne by 31 people.

The last name van Sang is most frequently held in Malaysia, where it is borne by 7 people, or 1 in 4,213,461. In Malaysia van Sang is most numerous in: Kuala Lumpur, where 43 percent are found, Penang, where 29 percent are found and Sabah, where 14 percent are found. Beside Malaysia this last name occurs in 2 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 20 percent are found and Germany, where 10 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 van Sang
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