Ngya Surname

1,295,379th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 175 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
DR Congo
Highest density in:
Mauritania

Ngya Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Ngya Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
DR Congo751:985,06164,020
Cameroon251:830,76357,125
Nigeria211:8,435,369179,591
Cambodia201:774,3574,921
Mauritania201:204,74310,209
Singapore41:1,376,92628,409
United States31:120,819,6441,331,040
India21:383,532,6911,645,216
South Africa21:27,088,852277,613
Indonesia11:132,249,194811,426
Pakistan11:178,643,885213,220
Thailand11:70,638,3451,175,915

Ngya (66) may also be a first name.

Ngya Last Name Facts

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

The last name Ngya (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺃﻧﻜﻴﺎ, Hindi: ंगया) is carried by more people in The DR Congo than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Ngya? popularity and diffusion

It is the 1,295,379th most commonly used last name at a global level It is held by around 1 in 41,643,120 people. The surname Ngya occurs predominantly in Africa, where 82 percent of Ngya live; 57 percent live in Central Africa and 57 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. Ngya is also the 1,201,840th most commonly used first name in the world It is held by 66 people.

This last name is most frequent in The DR Congo, where it is borne by 75 people, or 1 in 985,061. Other than The DR Congo this last name occurs in 11 countries. It is also found in Cameroon, where 14 percent live and Nigeria, where 12 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Ngyah89282/
Ngyia8957/
Ngyay8952/
Ngyaa896/
Ngyea891/
Nhgya891/
Ngyiah8061/
Ngyo7534/
Ndya7532/
Ngyou6730/
Ndjya6710/
Ndyaa679/
Ngyoy675/
Ndyat674/
N'Dya672/
Ndyas671/
Ndgia671/
Ndhya671/
Ndyay671/

Ngya Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Ngya in the Hindi language
ंगयाngaya-
Ngya in the Hassaniya-Arabic language
ﺃﻧﻜﻴﺎankya75
ﺍﻧﻜﻴﺎankya25

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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 Ngya
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