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 most in Cameroon. It may also be rendered as:. 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 used last name in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 58,300,367 people. The surname Ngessa occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Ngessa reside; 87 percent reside in Central Africa and 87 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa.
This last name is most commonly held in Cameroon, where it is carried by 109 people, or 1 in 190,542. In Cameroon Ngessa is primarily concentrated in: Southwest Region, where 93 percent reside, Northwest Region, where 3 percent reside and Centre Region, where 1 percent reside. Other than Cameroon this surname exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in Tanzania, where 11 percent reside and Brazil, where 1 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
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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
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