Ngoweni Surname

1,391,595th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 157 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Zimbabwe
Highest density in:
Zimbabwe

Ngoweni Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Ngoweni Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Zimbabwe1551:99,60214,056
Malawi11:17,119,10934,144
South Africa11:54,177,704343,732

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
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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 Ngoweni
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