Ngwenyi Surname
Approximately 333 people bear this surname
Ngwenyi Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 317 | 1:65,518 | 8,305 |
| Kenya | 5 | 1:9,235,980 | 55,978 |
| Nigeria | 5 | 1:35,428,552 | 388,973 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
Ngwenyi (450) may also be a first name.
Ngwenyi Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ngwenyi Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Ngwenyi is found most frequently in Cameroon. It can also occur as:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ngwenyi? popularity and diffusion
It is the 830,559th most commonly occurring last name on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 21,884,522 people. The last name is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Ngwenyi are found; 96 percent are found in Central Africa and 96 percent are found in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 403,380th most common forename world-wide, borne by 450 people.
This last name is most prevalent in Cameroon, where it is borne by 317 people, or 1 in 65,518. In Cameroon it is mostly concentrated in: Northwest Region, where 72 percent reside, Centre Region, where 10 percent reside and Southwest Region, where 8 percent reside. Aside from Cameroon this surname exists in 5 countries. It is also common in Kenya, where 2 percent reside and Nigeria, where 2 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
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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 Ngwenyi
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