Ngaan Surname
Approximately 19 people bear this surname
Ngaan Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 16 | 1:1,298,067 | 76,941 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
Ngaan Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ngaan Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Ngaan occurs in Cameroon more than any other country or territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Ngaan? popularity and diffusion
It is the 4,532,898th most widely held last name on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 383,555,048 people. The surname Ngaan is predominantly found in Africa, where 95 percent of Ngaan live; 89 percent live in Central Africa and 89 percent live in Central Bantu Africa.
The surname is most frequent in Cameroon, where it is carried by 16 people, or 1 in 1,298,067. In Cameroon it is mostly concentrated in: Littoral Region, where 94 percent live and West Region, where 6 percent live. Other than Cameroon it occurs in 3 countries. It is also common in The DR Congo, where 5 percent live and Malaysia, where 5 percent live.
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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 Ngaan
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