Ngwanya Surname

218,646th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 1,873 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
South Africa
Highest density in:
South Africa

Ngwanya Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Ngwanya Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
South Africa1,3891:39,0055,023
Cameroon3211:64,7018,219
Zimbabwe561:275,68328,626
Nigeria481:3,690,474107,175
DR Congo411:1,801,94195,514
Tanzania71:7,563,08870,659
England51:11,143,612252,590
Uganda21:19,519,640189,114
Botswana11:2,186,92930,250
Somalia11:13,452,0619,224
Swaziland11:1,298,1991,718
Zambia11:15,849,92253,989

Ngwanya (19) may also be a first name.

Ngwanya Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Ngwanya Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Ngwanya occurs most in South Africa. It can be found as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Ngwanya? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 218,646th most frequently used last name at a global level It is held by around 1 in 3,890,841 people. The surname Ngwanya is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Ngwanya live; 77 percent live in Southern Africa and 77 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 2,523,061st most commonly held given name in the world, held by 19 people.

The surname Ngwanya is most widespread in South Africa, where it is borne by 1,389 people, or 1 in 39,005. In South Africa Ngwanya is most frequent in: Eastern Cape, where 48 percent are found, KwaZulu-Natal, where 28 percent are found and Gauteng, where 10 percent are found. Beside South Africa Ngwanya exists in 11 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 17 percent are found and Zimbabwe, where 3 percent are found.

Ngwanya Last Name Statistics demography

Ngwanya earn significantly less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 26.38% less than the national average, earning R 174,960 per year.

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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 Ngwanya
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