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 may be found in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wangay? popularity and diffusion
Wangay is the 881,213th most commonly occurring surname globally It is held by around 1 in 23,815,510 people. The last name Wangay occurs predominantly in Africa, where 73 percent of Wangay are found; 72 percent are found in West Africa and 72 percent are found in Chadic Africa. It is also the 1,068,082nd most widespread first name worldwide It is held by 81 people.
The last name is most prevalent in Niger, where it is borne by 220 people, or 1 in 87,236. In Niger Wangay is most frequent in: Tillabéri Region, where 93 percent live and Niamey Capital District, where 7 percent live. Barring Niger this last name exists in 5 countries. It is also found 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 |
Search for Another Surname
The name statistics are still in development, sign up for information on more maps and data
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
- To find out more about this surname's family history, lookup records on FamilySearch, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and Ancestry. Further information may be obtained by DNA analysis