Ngessa Surname
Approximately 125 people bear this surname
Ngessa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 109 | 1:190,542 | 19,833 |
| Tanzania | 14 | 1:3,781,544 | 51,645 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
Ngessa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ngessa Come From? nationality or country of origin
Ngessa occurs more in Cameroon more than any other country/territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Ngessa click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ngessa? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,612,213th most widely held surname on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 58,300,367 people. Ngessa is primarily found in Africa, where 99 percent of Ngessa are found; 87 percent are found in Central Africa and 87 percent are found in Central Bantu Africa.
Ngessa is most numerous in Cameroon, where it is borne by 109 people, or 1 in 190,542. In Cameroon Ngessa is most common in: Southwest Region, where 93 percent are found, Northwest Region, where 3 percent are found and Centre Region, where 1 percent are found. Not including Cameroon this surname occurs in 3 countries. It is also common in Tanzania, where 11 percent are found and Brazil, where 1 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 Ngessa
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