Zhigan Surname
Approximately 577 people bear this surname
Zhigan Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Russia | 502 | 1:287,098 | 29,671 |
| Belarus | 32 | 1:296,908 | 33,328 |
| Kazakhstan | 15 | 1:1,178,833 | 65,606 |
| Moldova | 12 | 1:296,781 | 24,445 |
| Transnistria | 8 | 1:59,337 | 8,632 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| Azerbaijan | 1 | 1:9,649,122 | 47,873 |
| Georgia | 1 | 1:3,745,545 | 47,852 |
| Tajikistan | 1 | 1:8,386,692 | 12,859 |
| Uzbekistan | 1 | 1:30,929,142 | 67,786 |
Zhigan (14,303) may also be a first name.
Zhigan Demographics
Zhigan Religious Adherence
in Russia
Religious Adherence
in Russia
Zhigan Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Zhigan Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Zhigan (Russian: Жиган) is found most frequently in Russia. It may also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Zhigan? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 552,857th most widely held family name at a global level, held by around 1 in 12,630,062 people. This last name is predominantly found in Europe, where 69 percent of Zhigan live; 69 percent live in Eastern Europe and 67 percent live in East Slavic Europe. It is also the 47,907th most numerous first name globally It is held by 14,303 people.
It is most widely held in Russia, where it is held by 502 people, or 1 in 287,098. In Russia it is most prevalent in: Moscow, where 16 percent live, Irkutsk Oblast, where 12 percent live and Krasnodar Krai, where 6 percent live. Other than Russia it occurs in 10 countries. It is also common in Belarus, where 6 percent live and Kazakhstan, where 3 percent live.
Zhigan Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those holding the Zhigan surname is principally Orthodox (81%) in Russia, Orthodox (80%) in Belarus and Orthodox (77%) in Ukraine.
In The United States those bearing the Zhigan last name are 0.74% more likely to be registered United Russias than the national average, with 46.03% registered to vote for the political party.
Phonetically Similar Names
Zhigan Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Zhigan in the Russian language | ||
| Жиган | zigan | - |
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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 Zhigan
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