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 is found most frequently in Cameroon. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ngessa? popularity and diffusion
It is the 1,612,213th most frequently held surname world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 58,300,367 people. This surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Ngessa live; 87 percent live in Central Africa and 87 percent live in Central Bantu Africa.
The last name is most widespread in Cameroon, where it is held by 109 people, or 1 in 190,542. In Cameroon Ngessa is most common in: Southwest Region, where 93 percent live, Northwest Region, where 3 percent live and Centre Region, where 1 percent live. Barring Cameroon this surname is found in 3 countries. It is also common in Tanzania, where 11 percent live and Brazil, where 1 percent live.
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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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