Ngouya Surname
Approximately 405 people bear this surname
Ngouya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Congo | 252 | 1:19,798 | 2,302 |
| Cameroon | 141 | 1:147,298 | 16,269 |
| Tanzania | 4 | 1:13,235,403 | 84,310 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Chad | 1 | 1:13,592,199 | 13,092 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
Ngouya (15) may also be a first name.
Ngouya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ngouya Come From? nationality or country of origin
Ngouya occurs more in The Congo more than any other country or territory. It can also occur as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Ngouya? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 719,876th most commonly occurring surname globally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 17,993,941 people. This surname is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Ngouya live; 76 percent live in Central Africa and 73 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. Ngouya is also the 2,900,335th most frequent given name internationally, held by 15 people.
This surname is most common in The Congo, where it is carried by 252 people, or 1 in 19,798. In The Congo it is mostly found in: Brazzaville Department, where 93 percent live, Cuvette-Ouest Department, where 2 percent live and Plateaux Department, where 2 percent live. Aside from The Congo Ngouya occurs in 9 countries. It is also common in Cameroon, where 35 percent live and Tanzania, 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
- 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 Ngouya
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