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 surname Wangay (Hindi: वांगया, Tibetan: དབང་རྒྱས།) occurs in Niger more than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of Wangay.
How Common Is The Last Name Wangay? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 881,213th most frequent surname on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 23,815,510 people. The surname 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 occurring first name throughout the world. It is borne by 81 people.
The last name is most commonly occurring in Niger, where it is carried by 220 people, or 1 in 87,236. In Niger it is most frequent in: Tillabéri Region, where 93 percent reside and Niamey Capital District, where 7 percent reside. Other than Niger this last name occurs in 5 countries. It is also found in Bhutan, where 23 percent reside and The Philippines, where 3 percent reside.
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
- 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 Wangay
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