Kîngë

surname · Latin script

Kîngë is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cameroon than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Hants. see King .

rarermore common
  • NONorway1 in 40K(measured from records)
  • CMCameroon≈1 in 56K
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 358K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Cameroon (inferred from the name graph)

≈500 people, est.

Record sources
66 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Kinge in GB United Kingdom, US United States, NO Norway and 4 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

Main GB Location (1881): Hants. see King .

Cited for this meaning 1

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Kîngë counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Kîngë is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CM Cameroon≈500 est.≈1 in 56K—Kinge9
GB United Kingdom≈180 est.≈1 in 358K—Kinge66
NO Norway1381 in 40K138Kinge6
US United States≈69 est.≈1 in 4.8MlistedKinge51
NG Nigeria≈61 est.≈1 in 3.5M—Kinge4
SY Syria≈29 est.≈1 in 680K—Kinge3
BE Belgium≈13 est.≈1 in 881K—Kinge3

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Kîngë is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Norwegian surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom

    Languages: Norwegian, Danish, Swedish

    Also written Kinge, Kîngê, Kínģé, Ķîngę, Kïñğë

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Kîngë under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Kîngë mean, and where does it come from?
Main GB Location (1881): Hants. see King . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
In which country does Kîngë have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 496 people named Kîngë in Cameroon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kinge.
Where is Kîngë most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kîngë is densest in Norway — about 1 in 40 thousand people — even though Cameroon holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Kîngë?
In Norway, the national register counted 138 people named Kîngë, about 1 in 40 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kîngë”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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