Wangay Surname
Approximately 306 people bear this surname
Wangay Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Niger | 220 | 1:87,236 | 3,702 |
| Bhutan | 69 | 1:8,928 | 338 |
| Philippines | 9 | 1:11,248,691 | 221,039 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
Wangay (81) may also be a first name.
Wangay Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wangay Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Wangay (Hindi: वांगया, Tibetan: དབང་རྒྱས།) is carried by more people in Niger than any other country/territory. It may also appear as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wangay? popularity and diffusion
The surname Wangay is the 881,213th most commonly held family name throughout the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 23,815,510 people. The surname Wangay occurs mostly in Africa, where 73 percent of Wangay reside; 72 percent reside in West Africa and 72 percent reside in Chadic Africa. It is also the 1,068,082nd most frequently used given name throughout the world. It is borne by 81 people.
Wangay is most frequently used in Niger, where it is borne by 220 people, or 1 in 87,236. In Niger Wangay is primarily concentrated in: Tillabéri Region, where 93 percent live and Niamey Capital District, where 7 percent live. Beside Niger it is found in 5 countries. It is also common in Bhutan, where 23 percent live and The Philippines, where 3 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Wangay Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Wangay in the Hindi language | ||
| वांगया | vangaya | - |
| Wangay in the Tibetan language | ||
| དབང་རྒྱས། | wanggyé | 60 |
| དབང་རྒྱལ། | wanggyal | 22 |
| དབང་རྒྱས་ | wanggyé | 10 |
| དབང་རྒྱལ་ | wanggyal | 6 |
| དབང་དགེ། | wanggé | 2 |
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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 Wangay
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