Señga
surname · Latin script
Señga is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country. Recorded meaning: The name was relatively common in West Central Scotland until the 1980s, and is sometimes said to derive from Agnes.
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 5.7Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- PGPapua New Guinea≈1 in 91K
- FRFrance≈1 in 250K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Señga itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 121 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Congo - Brazzaville, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Senga in CD Congo - Kinshasa, TZ Tanzania, CM Cameroon and 1 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)The name was relatively common in West Central Scotland until the 1980s, and is sometimes said to derive from Agnes.
Cited for this meaning 3
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Señga is found
(measured from records)Señga 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 | #618 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | 1 | Senga | 15 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | — | Senga | 17 |
| CG Congo - Brazzaville | #447 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | — | Senga | 6 |
| IN India | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 3.1M | 1 | — | 5 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Senga | 2 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 91K | 4 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 23 | 1 in 9.2M | 23 | — | — |
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: Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Señga mean, and where does it come from?
- The name was relatively common in West Central Scotland until the 1980s, and is sometimes said to derive from Agnes. Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and A concise dictionary of first names and 1 other source.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Señga?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Señga in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled senga. After it come Tanzania, Congo - Brazzaville, India and Cameroon; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Señga?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 23 people named Señga, about 1 in 9.2 million residents.
- How common is Señga compared with other names?
- In Congo - Kinshasa, Señga is the 618th most common surname of 44,726 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/se%C3%B1gaThe 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, “Señga” — the 618th most common surname in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.