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 held by more people in The DR Congo than any other country/territory. It can also occur as:. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Ngya? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 1,295,379th most frequent family name worldwide It is held by approximately 1 in 41,643,120 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 82 percent of Ngya live; 57 percent live in Central Africa and 57 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,201,840th most common first name in the world It is held by 66 people.

The surname is most frequent in The DR Congo, where it is carried by 75 people, or 1 in 985,061. Besides The DR Congo this last name exists in 11 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 14 percent are found and Nigeria, where 12 percent are found.

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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