Ngalla
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/nɡalla/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ngalla is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 13K(measured from records)
- CMCameroon≈1 in 34K
- SNSenegal≈1 in 35K
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.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 19 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈910 people, est.
Highest-authority source
St. Kitts & Nevis
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
Ngalla 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Ngalla | 13 |
| CM Cameroon | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Ngalla | 5 |
| KE Kenya | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 104K | — | Ngalla | 11 |
| SN Senegal | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 35K | 1 | Ngalla | 4 |
| US United States | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 20M | listed | Ngalla | 19 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 4 | 1 in 13K | 4 | — | — |
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; DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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
- How do you pronounce Ngalla?
- A machine transcription gives /nɡalla/ (IPA) for Swahili.
- In which country does Ngalla have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 914 people named Ngalla in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ngalla.
- Where is Ngalla most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ngalla is densest in St. Kitts & Nevis — about 1 in 13 thousand people — even though Tanzania holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ngalla?
- In St. Kitts & Nevis, the national register counted 4 people named Ngalla in 2026, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ngalla?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ngallaThe 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, “Ngalla”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.