Wangka Surname
Approximately 1,206 people bear this surname
Wangka Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 1,000 | 1:132,249 | 13,214 |
| Thailand | 140 | 1:504,560 | 87,939 |
| Philippines | 54 | 1:1,874,782 | 115,801 |
| India | 5 | 1:153,413,076 | 951,030 |
| China | 4 | 1:341,830,392 | 16,990 |
| Taiwan | 2 | 1:11,722,373 | 63,559 |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 1:7,335,483 | 16,643 |
Wangka (768) may also be a first name.
Wangka Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wangka Come From? nationality or country of origin
Wangka (Tibetan: དབང་ཀ།) is more commonly found in Indonesia than any other country/territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of Wangka.
How Common Is The Last Name Wangka? popularity and diffusion
It is the 311,995th most frequently held family name internationally, borne by approximately 1 in 6,042,741 people. This surname is predominantly found in Asia, where 99 percent of Wangka reside; 98 percent reside in Southeast Asia and 82 percent reside in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia. Wangka is also the 296,201st most frequently used first name at a global level, held by 768 people.
The last name is most frequent in Indonesia, where it is borne by 1,000 people, or 1 in 132,249. In Indonesia it is primarily concentrated in: North Sulawesi, where 72 percent reside, North Maluku, where 16 percent reside and East Nusa Tenggara, where 7 percent reside. Apart from Indonesia this surname occurs in 6 countries. It is also found in Thailand, where 12 percent reside and The Philippines, where 4 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Wangka Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Wangka in the Tibetan language | ||
| དབང་ཀ། | wangka | - |
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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 Wangka
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