Ngeteh Surname
Approximately 56 people bear this surname
Ngeteh Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 55 | 1:377,619 | 33,137 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
Ngeteh Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ngeteh Come From? nationality or country of origin
Ngeteh is found in Cameroon more than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ngeteh? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 2,580,327th most commonly occurring surname world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 130,134,748 people. The surname Ngeteh occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Ngeteh live; 73 percent live in Central Africa and 73 percent live in Central Bantu Africa.
Ngeteh is most frequently used in Cameroon, where it is carried by 55 people, or 1 in 377,619. In Cameroon it is mostly found in: Northwest Region, where 67 percent live, Adamawa Region, where 25 percent live and Southwest Region, where 4 percent live. Beside Cameroon this last name occurs in one country. It is also found in Nigeria, where 2 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 Ngeteh
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