Ngayam Surname
Approximately 527 people bear this surname
Ngayam Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chad | 385 | 1:35,304 | 4,109 |
| Cameroon | 76 | 1:273,277 | 26,204 |
| Philippines | 26 | 1:3,893,778 | 155,597 |
| Papua New Guinea | 25 | 1:326,149 | 43,617 |
| Belgium | 7 | 1:1,642,378 | 98,400 |
| Indonesia | 5 | 1:26,449,839 | 597,308 |
| Congo | 2 | 1:2,494,548 | 28,763 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Ngayam (661) may also be a first name.
Ngayam Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ngayam Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Ngayam is held by more people in Chad than any other country/territory. It can also be found as:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Ngayam? popularity and diffusion
It is the 591,720th most frequent surname on earth. It is borne by approximately 1 in 13,828,360 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 88 percent of Ngayam are found; 85 percent are found in West Africa and 83 percent are found in Chadic Africa. Ngayam is also the 322,851st most frequently held first name throughout the world, borne by 661 people.
The last name is most frequently held in Chad, where it is borne by 385 people, or 1 in 35,304. Besides Chad it occurs in 7 countries. It is also found in Cameroon, where 14 percent are found and The Philippines, where 5 percent are found.
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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 Ngayam
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