Njega Surname
Approximately 1,060 people bear this surname
Njega Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenya | 1,044 | 1:44,234 | 4,583 |
| Tanzania | 9 | 1:5,882,401 | 60,754 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| Uganda | 3 | 1:13,013,093 | 160,157 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Njega (78) may also be a first name.
Njega Demographics
Njega Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Njega Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Njega Come From? nationality or country of origin
Njega has its highest incidence in Kenya. It can be rendered as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Njega? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 345,372nd most widespread last name globally It is held by around 1 in 6,875,043 people. Njega is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Njega are found; 100 percent are found in East Africa and 94 percent are found in East Bantu Africa. Njega is also the 1,091,646th most commonly occurring first name in the world, held by 78 people.
The surname Njega is most common in Kenya, where it is held by 1,044 people, or 1 in 44,234. In Kenya Njega is mostly concentrated in: Kirinyaga County, where 54 percent are found, Nairobi County, where 16 percent are found and Embu County, where 7 percent are found. Apart from Kenya it occurs in 4 countries. It is also common in Tanzania, where 1 percent are found and England, where 0 percent are found.
Njega Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the Njega last name is principally Christian (100%) in Kenya.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Njega
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