Ngafe Surname
Approximately 115 people bear this surname
Ngafe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 100 | 1:207,691 | 21,269 |
| Niger | 14 | 1:1,370,858 | 28,349 |
| Malawi | 1 | 1:17,119,109 | 34,144 |
Ngafe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ngafe Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Ngafe is borne by more people in Cameroon than any other country or territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ngafe? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 1,701,480th most commonly held last name globally, held by approximately 1 in 63,369,964 people. The last name Ngafe occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Ngafe are found; 81 percent are found in Central Africa and 80 percent are found in Central Bantu Africa.
The last name Ngafe is most common in Cameroon, where it is borne by 100 people, or 1 in 207,691. In Cameroon Ngafe is mostly concentrated in: Northwest Region, where 41 percent reside, West Region, where 25 percent reside and Southwest Region, where 11 percent reside. Without taking into account Cameroon this last name is found in 2 countries. It also occurs in Niger, where 12 percent reside and Malawi, where 1 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
- 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 Ngafe
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