Ngwengwe Surname

709,895th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 413 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Zambia
Highest density in:
Botswana

Ngwengwe Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Ngwengwe Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Zambia1521:104,2768,256
DR Congo1091:677,79449,381
Zimbabwe871:177,45121,452
Botswana281:78,10513,263
South Africa221:2,462,623101,019
Tanzania81:6,617,70268,742
Cameroon41:5,192,267135,173
England11:55,718,059489,080
Nigeria11:177,142,758748,972
Uganda11:39,039,279258,887

Ngwengwe (25) may also be a first name.

Ngwengwe Last Name Facts

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

The last name Ngwengwe is more commonly found in Zambia than any other country/territory. It can also appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Ngwengwe click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Ngwengwe? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 709,895th most commonly occurring surname at a global level, held by around 1 in 17,645,390 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Ngwengwe reside; 70 percent reside in Southern Africa and 70 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 2,136,160th most widely held first name internationally, borne by 25 people.

This surname is most widespread in Zambia, where it is carried by 152 people, or 1 in 104,276. In Zambia it is mostly concentrated in: Southern Province, where 38 percent live, Lusaka Province, where 35 percent live and Central Province, where 16 percent live. Apart from Zambia Ngwengwe occurs in 9 countries. It also occurs in The DR Congo, where 26 percent live and Zimbabwe, where 21 percent live.

Ngwengwe Last Name Statistics demography

Ngwengwe earn less than half the average income. In South Africa they earn 87.5% less than the national average, earning R 29,712 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 Ngwengwe
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