Ngalama Surname
Approximately 929 people bear this surname
Ngalama Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 720 | 1:73,530 | 7,661 |
| DR Congo | 75 | 1:985,061 | 64,020 |
| Kenya | 49 | 1:942,447 | 33,788 |
| Zambia | 24 | 1:660,413 | 25,715 |
| Uganda | 23 | 1:1,697,360 | 58,907 |
| Liberia | 21 | 1:209,930 | 13,691 |
| Cameroon | 13 | 1:1,597,621 | 87,539 |
| Angola | 1 | 1:26,989,214 | 11,853 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Ngalama (190) may also be a first name.
Ngalama Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ngalama Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Ngalama has its highest incidence in Tanzania. It may also occur in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of Ngalama.
How Common Is The Last Name Ngalama? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 383,038th most commonly occurring last name world-wide, held by around 1 in 7,844,506 people. This last name is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Ngalama live; 85 percent live in East Africa and 85 percent live in East Bantu Africa. Ngalama is also the 659,352nd most frequently used first name at a global level It is held by 190 people.
The surname is most numerous in Tanzania, where it is held by 720 people, or 1 in 73,530. In Tanzania Ngalama is most frequent in: Kigoma Region, where 29 percent reside, Morogoro Region, where 26 percent reside and Tabora Region, where 26 percent reside. Aside from Tanzania this surname is found in 10 countries. It is also found in The DR Congo, where 8 percent reside and Kenya, where 5 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 Ngalama
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