Nguele Surname
Approximately 11,588 people bear this surname
Nguele Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 9,727 | 1:2,135 | 219 |
| Gabon | 1,263 | 1:1,496 | 252 |
| Congo | 481 | 1:10,372 | 1,413 |
| France | 50 | 1:1,328,454 | 133,611 |
| DR Congo | 48 | 1:1,539,158 | 86,567 |
| United States | 5 | 1:72,491,787 | 1,102,614 |
| Mozambique | 4 | 1:6,815,392 | 4,272 |
| Mauritania | 2 | 1:2,047,432 | 30,537 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Central African Republic | 1 | 1:4,515,390 | 1,196 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
The alternate forms: Nguelè (1) are calculated separately.
Nguele (328) may also be a first name.
Nguele Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nguele Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Nguele is held by more people in Cameroon than any other country/territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms: Nguelè. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Nguele? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 44,822nd most frequent surname worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 628,887 people. The surname is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Nguele are found; 98 percent are found in Central Africa and 75 percent are found in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 484,112th most widely held first name throughout the world, held by 328 people.
The last name Nguele is most frequently held in Cameroon, where it is carried by 9,727 people, or 1 in 2,135. In Cameroon Nguele is most common in: Centre Region, where 46 percent live, East Region, where 23 percent live and South Region, where 23 percent live. Not including Cameroon this surname exists in 15 countries. It is also common in Gabon, where 11 percent live and The Congo, where 4 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
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