Ngah
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ) TNoa, Noe, (überkonfessionelle
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ngah is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cameroon than in any other country.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 5.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- CMCameroon≈1 in 1.4K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 109K
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)
- Sources
- 59 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈20,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Cameroon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
) TNoa, Noe, (überkonfessionelle
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ngah 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 1 | Ngah | 5 |
| MY Malaysia | #248 | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Ngah | 59 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 109K | — | Ngah | 18 |
| US United States | — | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 7.1M | listed | Ngah | 7 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 203K | — | Ngah | 11 |
| PL Poland | — | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | listed | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 7 | 1 in 7.1M | 7 | — | — |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Assemblee Nationale du Cameroun — sitting-MP roster, 10eme legislature (2020-2025); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
Ngah is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In acn, my (1st-person singular possessive)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Albanian, to run, hasten, go quickly
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Passy Ngahb. 1990CMCameroonian actress
- Marie Ngahb. 2002CMCameroonian association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7 | #143,513 |
| CM Cameroon | Assemblee Nationale du Cameroun — sitting-MP roster, 10eme legislature (2020-2025) | 2020 | 1 | #2 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ngah mean, and where does it come from?
- ) TNoa, Noe, (überkonfessionelle Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen.
- In which country does Ngah have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 20 thousand people named Ngah in Cameroon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ngah.
- How common is the name Ngah?
- In Spain, the national register counted 7 people named Ngah, about 1 in 7.1 million residents.
- How common is Ngah compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Ngah is the 248th most common surname of 291,743 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ngahThe 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, “Ngah” — the 248th most common surname in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.