Nguni Surname
Approximately 14,092 people bear this surname
Nguni Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zambia | 12,252 | 1:1,294 | 179 |
| Zimbabwe | 385 | 1:40,099 | 6,189 |
| Kenya | 297 | 1:155,488 | 12,325 |
| Tanzania | 283 | 1:187,073 | 16,148 |
| Cameroon | 275 | 1:75,524 | 9,350 |
| Malawi | 235 | 1:72,847 | 9,384 |
| South Africa | 135 | 1:401,316 | 35,360 |
| DR Congo | 82 | 1:900,970 | 60,382 |
| Uganda | 29 | 1:1,346,182 | 51,611 |
| United States | 22 | 1:16,475,406 | 557,260 |
| England | 19 | 1:2,932,529 | 101,561 |
| Botswana | 17 | 1:128,643 | 18,229 |
| Papua New Guinea | 16 | 1:509,607 | 63,542 |
| Indonesia | 15 | 1:8,816,613 | 340,855 |
| Solomon Islands | 12 | 1:48,336 | 9,616 |
| Northern Ireland | 4 | 1:461,259 | 16,615 |
| Namibia | 2 | 1:1,204,700 | 16,113 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Mozambique | 1 | 1:27,261,569 | 7,432 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
The alternate forms: Ngúni (1) are calculated separately.
Nguni (164) may also be a first name.
Nguni Demographics
Nguni Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Nguni Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nguni Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Nguni (Russian: Нгуни) occurs more in Zambia more than any other country or territory. It may be found as a variant: Ngúni. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Nguni? popularity and diffusion
It is the 37,360th most frequently held family name in the world, held by around 1 in 517,141 people. This last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Nguni live; 92 percent live in Southern Africa and 92 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 715,247th most common first name world-wide, held by 164 people.
This surname is most frequently used in Zambia, where it is carried by 12,252 people, or 1 in 1,294. In Zambia it is mostly found in: Lusaka Province, where 25 percent live, Copperbelt Province, where 21 percent live and Eastern Province, where 20 percent live. Excluding Zambia this surname exists in 28 countries. It also occurs in Zimbabwe, where 3 percent live and Kenya, where 2 percent live.
Nguni Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those bearing the last name is principally Christian (100%) in Kenya.
The amount Nguni earn in different countries varies markedly. In South Africa they earn 1.68% more than the national average, earning R 241,632 per year and in United States they earn 37.54% less than the national average, earning $26,950 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Nguni Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Nguni in the Russian language | ||
| Нгуни | nguni | - |
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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 Nguni
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