Ngatena Surname

1,994,173rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 88 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Tanzania
Highest density in:
Tanzania

Ngatena Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Ngatena Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Tanzania621:853,89743,657
DR Congo211:3,518,075145,665
Cameroon21:10,384,534165,830
Indonesia21:66,124,597756,638
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Ngatena (30) may also be a first name.

Ngatena Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Ngatena Come From? nationality or country of origin

Ngatena is borne by more people in Tanzania than any other country or territory. It may be found as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Ngatena? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 1,994,173rd most frequently used family name on earth. It is borne by around 1 in 82,813,022 people. The last name Ngatena occurs predominantly in Africa, where 97 percent of Ngatena are found; 70 percent are found in East Africa and 70 percent are found in East Bantu Africa. Ngatena is also the 1,911,214th most common first name worldwide. It is borne by 30 people.

The last name Ngatena is most commonly occurring in Tanzania, where it is borne by 62 people, or 1 in 853,897. In Tanzania Ngatena is most frequent in: Kilimanjaro Region, where 90 percent reside, Dar es Salaam Region, where 6 percent reside and Mbeya Region, where 2 percent reside. Aside from Tanzania this last name occurs in 4 countries. It also occurs in The DR Congo, where 24 percent reside and Cameroon, where 2 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
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Ngatena
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