Ngesheya Surname
Approximately 882 people bear this surname
Ngesheya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Namibia | 878 | 1:2,744 | 450 |
| South Africa | 3 | 1:18,059,235 | 248,362 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
Ngesheya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ngesheya Come From? nationality or country of origin
Ngesheya occurs more in Namibia more than any other country or territory. It may also occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Ngesheya? popularity and diffusion
The last name Ngesheya is the 398,988th most frequent family name in the world, held by approximately 1 in 8,262,524 people. The surname Ngesheya occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Ngesheya live; 100 percent live in Southern Africa and 100 percent live in South Bantu Africa.
The surname Ngesheya is most widely held in Namibia, where it is held by 878 people, or 1 in 2,744. In Namibia it is mostly concentrated in: Ohangwena Region, where 37 percent reside, Oshikoto Region, where 22 percent reside and Khomas Region, where 16 percent reside. Aside from Namibia this last name exists in 2 countries. It is also common in South Africa, where 0 percent reside and Brazil, where 0 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
- 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 Ngesheya
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