Ngambé
surname · Latin script
Ngambé is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 4.3Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 2.3Mfew records
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
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)
- Record sources
- 47 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Congo - Kinshasa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Ngambe in CD Congo - Kinshasa, CM Cameroon, ZA South Africa and 1 more and Ng'Ambe in TZ Tanzania.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ngambé 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 | #453 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Ngambe | 3 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Ngambe | 7 |
| CG Congo - Brazzaville | — | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | — | Ngambe | 4 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 540K | — | Ng'Ambe | 5 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Ngambe | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | 1 |
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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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
- In which country does Ngambé have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Ngambé in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ngambe.
- How common is the name Ngambé?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 3 people named Ngambé in 2024, about 1 in 2.8 million residents.
- How common is Ngambé compared with other names?
- In Congo - Kinshasa, Ngambé is the 453rd most common surname of 44,726 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ngambé?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ngamb%C3%A9The 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, “Ngambé” — the 453rd most common surname in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.