Ngethe Surname
Approximately 3,332 people bear this surname
Ngethe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenya | 3,244 | 1:14,235 | 1,739 |
| United States | 46 | 1:7,879,542 | 351,394 |
| South Africa | 12 | 1:4,514,809 | 137,638 |
| England | 8 | 1:6,964,757 | 184,742 |
| Sudan | 4 | 1:9,377,549 | 8,207 |
| United Arab Emirates | 4 | 1:2,290,568 | 60,372 |
| Australia | 3 | 1:8,998,567 | 200,784 |
| Spain | 2 | 1:23,376,018 | 128,922 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
The alternate forms: Ngéthe (1) are calculated separately.
Ngethe (855) may also be a first name.
Ngethe Demographics
Ngethe Political Affiliation
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Ngethe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ngethe Come From? nationality or country of origin
Ngethe occurs most in Kenya. It can be rendered in the variant forms: Ngéthe. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Ngethe? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 135,000th most frequent family name on earth, held by approximately 1 in 2,187,139 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 98 percent of Ngethe live; 97 percent live in East Africa and 86 percent live in East Bantu Africa. Ngethe is also the 278,605th most frequent forename world-wide It is held by 855 people.
The last name Ngethe is most frequently occurring in Kenya, where it is borne by 3,244 people, or 1 in 14,235. In Kenya it is primarily found in: Kiambu County, where 27 percent reside, Nairobi County, where 22 percent reside and Nakuru County, where 17 percent reside. Not including Kenya this surname exists in 14 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 1 percent reside and South Africa, where 0 percent reside.
Ngethe Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those holding the surname is principally Christian (100%) in Kenya.
In The United States those holding the Ngethe last name are 3.91% more likely to be registered Democrats than The US average, with 57.14% being registered with the party.
The amount Ngethe earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 81.31% less than the national average, earning R 44,424 per year and in United States they earn 16.51% less than the national average, earning $36,025 USD per year.
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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 Ngethe
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