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
Nguele is more frequently found in Cameroon than any other country/territory. It may also occur in the variant forms: Nguelè. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Nguele? popularity and diffusion
It is the 44,822nd most frequent family name world-wide It is held by around 1 in 628,887 people. Nguele is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Nguele reside; 98 percent reside in Central Africa and 75 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa. Nguele is also the 484,112th most commonly held first name at a global level, borne by 328 people.
It is most frequently occurring in Cameroon, where it is held by 9,727 people, or 1 in 2,135. In Cameroon it is primarily concentrated in: Centre Region, where 46 percent are found, East Region, where 23 percent are found and South Region, where 23 percent are found. Barring Cameroon it exists in 15 countries. It also occurs in Gabon, where 11 percent are found and The Congo, where 4 percent are found.
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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 Nguele
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