Ngweja Surname
Approximately 215 people bear this surname
Ngweja Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 205 | 1:360,388 | 31,424 |
| Zimbabwe | 8 | 1:1,929,780 | 92,581 |
| Tanzania | 2 | 1:26,470,806 | 111,653 |
Ngweja Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ngweja Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Ngweja occurs most in The DR Congo. It may also be rendered as:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Ngweja? popularity and diffusion
The surname Ngweja is the 1,125,333rd most frequently used last name worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 33,895,562 people. The last name Ngweja occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Ngweja are found; 95 percent are found in Central Africa and 95 percent are found in Central Bantu Africa.
This last name is most numerous in The DR Congo, where it is borne by 205 people, or 1 in 360,388. Outside of The DR Congo Ngweja occurs in 2 countries. It is also common in Zimbabwe, where 4 percent are found and Tanzania, where 1 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
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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
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