Nguga Surname
Approximately 458 people bear this surname
Nguga Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 231 | 1:229,184 | 18,969 |
| Nigeria | 158 | 1:1,121,157 | 46,146 |
| Zimbabwe | 57 | 1:270,846 | 28,330 |
| Indonesia | 5 | 1:26,449,839 | 597,308 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1:23,089,950 | 83,168 |
| Malaysia | 2 | 1:14,747,112 | 316,340 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Nguga (23) may also be a first name.
Nguga Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nguga Come From? nationality or country of origin
Nguga is borne by more people in Tanzania than any other country or territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Nguga click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Nguga? popularity and diffusion
The surname Nguga is the 657,184th most commonly held family name on a worldwide basis, borne by around 1 in 15,911,672 people. This last name is primarily found in Africa, where 98 percent of Nguga live; 51 percent live in East Africa and 51 percent live in East Bantu Africa. Nguga is also the 2,239,265th most commonly occurring first name globally, borne by 23 people.
It is most widely held in Tanzania, where it is held by 231 people, or 1 in 229,184. In Tanzania it is most frequent in: Njombe Region, where 41 percent reside, Morogoro Region, where 41 percent reside and Iringa Region, where 14 percent reside. Beside Tanzania Nguga occurs in 7 countries. It also occurs in Nigeria, where 34 percent reside and Zimbabwe, where 12 percent reside.
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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 Nguga
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