Ngalema Surname
Approximately 300 people bear this surname
Ngalema Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 150 | 1:492,530 | 39,325 |
| Tanzania | 148 | 1:357,714 | 26,551 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
Ngalema Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ngalema Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Ngalema is most common in The DR Congo. It may also be rendered as:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Ngalema? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 893,754th most frequent family name in the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 24,291,820 people. The last name Ngalema is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Ngalema reside; 50 percent reside in Central Africa and 50 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa.
Ngalema is most commonly used in The DR Congo, where it is borne by 150 people, or 1 in 492,530. Apart from The DR Congo this last name is found in 3 countries. It is also found in Tanzania, where 49 percent reside and Cameroon, where 0 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
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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
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