Ngalima Surname
Approximately 3,657 people bear this surname
Ngalima Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 2,558 | 1:28,882 | 3,611 |
| Tanzania | 915 | 1:57,860 | 6,268 |
| Malawi | 105 | 1:163,039 | 16,499 |
| Cameroon | 59 | 1:352,018 | 31,532 |
| Niger | 10 | 1:1,919,202 | 37,248 |
| Uganda | 3 | 1:13,013,093 | 160,157 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
Ngalima (1,162) may also be a first name.
Ngalima Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ngalima Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Ngalima occurs more in The DR Congo more than any other country/territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Ngalima? popularity and diffusion
It is the 124,635th most common family name world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 1,992,766 people. The last name is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Ngalima reside; 72 percent reside in Central Africa and 72 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 233,099th most commonly used first name on earth It is held by 1,162 people.
This last name is most commonly used in The DR Congo, where it is carried by 2,558 people, or 1 in 28,882. Besides The DR Congo it occurs in 10 countries. It is also found in Tanzania, where 25 percent live and Malawi, where 3 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 Ngalima
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