Ngalam Surname
Approximately 104 people bear this surname
Ngalam Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 47 | 1:441,895 | 37,035 |
| Indonesia | 27 | 1:4,898,118 | 234,077 |
| Nigeria | 15 | 1:11,809,517 | 219,567 |
| England | 9 | 1:6,190,895 | 170,599 |
| Senegal | 2 | 1:7,289,671 | 8,117 |
| North Macedonia | 1 | 1:2,101,472 | 31,546 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Ngalam (53) may also be a first name.
Ngalam Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ngalam Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Ngalam occurs in Cameroon more than any other country or territory. It may occur as:. Click here for further possible spellings of Ngalam.
How Common Is The Last Name Ngalam? popularity and diffusion
Ngalam is the 1,806,862nd most widely held surname world-wide, held by around 1 in 70,072,557 people. Ngalam occurs mostly in Africa, where 63 percent of Ngalam reside; 36 percent reside in West Africa and 26 percent reside in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia. It is also the 1,366,219th most prevalent forename globally It is held by 53 people.
The last name is most numerous in Cameroon, where it is carried by 47 people, or 1 in 441,895. In Cameroon Ngalam is mostly found in: Adamawa Region, where 43 percent live, Littoral Region, where 23 percent live and West Region, where 21 percent live. Excluding Cameroon it exists in 8 countries. It is also found in Indonesia, where 26 percent live and Nigeria, where 14 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 Ngalam
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