Ngoweni Surname
Approximately 157 people bear this surname
Ngoweni Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zimbabwe | 155 | 1:99,602 | 14,056 |
| Malawi | 1 | 1:17,119,109 | 34,144 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Ngoweni Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ngoweni Come From? nationality or country of origin
Ngoweni is most common in Zimbabwe. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ngoweni? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,391,595th most frequently held family name throughout the world, borne by approximately 1 in 46,417,490 people. The surname is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Ngoweni reside; 100 percent reside in Southern Africa and 100 percent reside in South Bantu Africa.
This last name is most widespread in Zimbabwe, where it is carried by 155 people, or 1 in 99,602. In Zimbabwe Ngoweni is most frequent in: Manicaland Province, where 41 percent live, Harare Province, where 35 percent live and Masvingo Province, where 23 percent live. Outside of Zimbabwe this last name exists in 2 countries. It is also found in Malawi, where 1 percent live and South Africa, 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 Ngoweni
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