Ngalaba Surname
Approximately 1,442 people bear this surname
Ngalaba Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 1,195 | 1:44,303 | 5,021 |
| DR Congo | 144 | 1:513,053 | 40,658 |
| Zambia | 83 | 1:190,963 | 12,723 |
| Cameroon | 10 | 1:2,076,907 | 105,188 |
| Togo | 4 | 1:1,811,942 | 8,122 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Chad | 1 | 1:13,592,199 | 13,092 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Malawi | 1 | 1:17,119,109 | 34,144 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
Ngalaba (264) may also be a first name.
Ngalaba Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ngalaba Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Ngalaba is more frequently found in Tanzania than any other country or territory. It may also be rendered as:. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Ngalaba? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 270,454th most commonly used family name worldwide It is held by around 1 in 5,053,777 people. The surname Ngalaba occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Ngalaba live; 83 percent live in East Africa and 83 percent live in East Bantu Africa. Ngalaba is also the 547,545th most frequently used given name internationally, held by 264 people.
This surname is most commonly held in Tanzania, where it is borne by 1,195 people, or 1 in 44,303. In Tanzania Ngalaba is mostly found in: Kigoma Region, where 40 percent live, Mwanza Region, where 27 percent live and Dar es Salaam Region, where 12 percent live. Excluding Tanzania this last name is found in 9 countries. It is also common in The DR Congo, where 10 percent live and Zambia, where 6 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 Ngalaba
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