Ngolya Surname
Approximately 247 people bear this surname
Ngolya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenya | 241 | 1:191,618 | 14,201 |
| Tanzania | 4 | 1:13,235,403 | 84,310 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
Ngolya (39) may also be a first name.
Ngolya Demographics
Ngolya Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Ngolya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ngolya Come From? nationality or country of origin
Ngolya is most common in Kenya. It can be found in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of Ngolya.
How Common Is The Last Name Ngolya? popularity and diffusion
The surname Ngolya is the 1,022,958th most frequently held last name in the world It is held by around 1 in 29,504,234 people. This surname is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Ngolya are found; 100 percent are found in East Africa and 99 percent are found in East Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,637,361st most frequently occurring first name at a global level It is held by 39 people.
This surname is most commonly occurring in Kenya, where it is held by 241 people, or 1 in 191,618. In Kenya Ngolya is mostly found in: Kitui County, where 34 percent live, Makueni County, where 32 percent live and Machakos County, where 29 percent live. Apart from Kenya Ngolya occurs in 3 countries. It is also common in Tanzania, where 2 percent live and The DR Congo, where 0 percent live.
Ngolya Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those bearing the last name is principally Christian (100%) in Kenya.
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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 Ngolya
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