Ng'Anga
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ng'Anga is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country. In Congo - Brazzaville it is the 31st most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Bantu. This surname is mostly found in Kenya.
- KEKenya≈1 in 858(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 522K
- CGCongo - Brazzaville≈1 in 535
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.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 152 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 535 (inferred from the name graph)
≈75,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Congo - Brazzaville, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Nganga in KE Kenya, US United States, TZ Tanzania and 3 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)
Borrowed from Bantu. This surname is mostly found in Kenya.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ng'Anga 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #203 | ≈75,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Nganga | 12 |
| KE Kenya | #156 | ≈62,000 est. | ≈1 in 858 | 2 | Nganga | 84 |
| CG Congo - Brazzaville | #31 | ≈9,900 est. | ≈1 in 535 | — | Nganga | 11 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Nganga | 15 |
| ZM Zambia | — | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 1 | Nganga | 8 |
| US United States | — | 637 | 1 in 522K | 1K | Nganga | 152 |
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: Mzalendo Trust "Elections Watch" — 2022 gazetted election winners; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Ng'Anga is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Nyanja, witch doctor
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ng'Anga mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Bantu. This surname is mostly found in Kenya. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Ng'Anga have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 75 thousand people named Ng'Anga in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nganga.
- How common is the name Ng'Anga?
- In the United States, the national register counted 637 people named Ng'Anga in 2010, about 1 in 522 thousand residents.
- How common is Ng'Anga compared with other names?
- In Congo - Kinshasa, Ng'Anga is the 203rd most common surname of 44,726 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ng'Anga?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ng'angaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Ng'Anga” — the 203rd most common surname in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.