Ngeche Surname
Approximately 511 people bear this surname
Ngeche Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 380 | 1:54,655 | 7,081 |
| Kenya | 125 | 1:369,439 | 21,332 |
| Tanzania | 4 | 1:13,235,403 | 84,310 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Ngeche (21) may also be a first name.
Ngeche Demographics
Ngeche Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Ngeche Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ngeche Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Ngeche is borne by more people in Cameroon than any other country/territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Ngeche click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ngeche? popularity and diffusion
The last name Ngeche is the 606,498th most commonly used family name at a global level. It is borne by around 1 in 14,261,342 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Ngeche live; 74 percent live in Central Africa and 74 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 2,368,944th most commonly used first name worldwide, held by 21 people.
The surname Ngeche is most numerous in Cameroon, where it is borne by 380 people, or 1 in 54,655. In Cameroon it is mostly concentrated in: Northwest Region, where 71 percent are found, Southwest Region, where 15 percent are found and Centre Region, where 7 percent are found. Besides Cameroon Ngeche is found in 4 countries. It also occurs in Kenya, where 24 percent are found and Tanzania, where 1 percent are found.
Ngeche Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those holding the Ngeche last name is primarily Christian (100%) in Kenya.
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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 Ngeche
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