Ncheme Surname
Approximately 44 people bear this surname
Ncheme Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lesotho | 20 | 1:101,628 | 11,096 |
| Zimbabwe | 13 | 1:1,187,557 | 68,998 |
| Cameroon | 9 | 1:2,307,674 | 112,590 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
Ncheme (189) may also be a first name.
Ncheme Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ncheme Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Ncheme is found most in Lesotho. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ncheme? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 2,944,094th most frequently used surname on earth It is held by around 1 in 165,626,044 people. This surname is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Ncheme live; 75 percent live in Southern Africa and 75 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 661,310th most frequently held first name worldwide, borne by 189 people.
This surname is most widely held in Lesotho, where it is held by 20 people, or 1 in 101,628. In Lesotho Ncheme is most common in: Berea District, where 85 percent reside, Leribe District, where 5 percent reside and Maseru District, where 5 percent reside. Barring Lesotho this surname occurs in 4 countries. It is also found in Zimbabwe, where 30 percent reside and Cameroon, where 20 percent reside.
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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 Ncheme
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