Ngassala Surname
Approximately 162 people bear this surname
Ngassala Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Congo | 123 | 1:40,562 | 3,835 |
| Cameroon | 28 | 1:741,752 | 52,682 |
| Tanzania | 10 | 1:5,294,161 | 57,086 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
Ngassala (100) may also be a first name.
Ngassala Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ngassala Come From? nationality or country of origin
Ngassala occurs more in The Congo more than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Ngassala? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,364,059th most frequently held last name in the world, held by approximately 1 in 44,984,851 people. The surname is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Ngassala live; 93 percent live in Central Africa and 77 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 946,056th most frequently used first name in the world. It is borne by 100 people.
This last name is most widely held in The Congo, where it is borne by 123 people, or 1 in 40,562. In The Congo it is most numerous in: Brazzaville Department, where 90 percent live, Cuvette-Ouest Department, where 5 percent live and Cuvette Department, where 3 percent live. Beside The Congo this last name occurs in 3 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 17 percent live and Tanzania, 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
- 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 Ngassala
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