Ngele
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ngele is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 18K(inferred from the name graph)
- SLSierra Leone≈1 in 28K
- NGNigeria≈1 in 81K
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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 22 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
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)
Ngele 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Ngele | 19 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Ngele | 22 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 82K | — | Ngele | 5 |
| KE Kenya | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Ngele | 13 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 215K | — | Ngele | 7 |
| SL Sierra Leone | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 28K | 1 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 2 | 1 in 5.9M | 2 | Ngele | 8 |
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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); NEC/ECSL — 2018 Local Council, Chairperson and Mayor nominated candidates. 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)
Attested in 4 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2 | #142,635 |
| SL Sierra Leone | NEC/ECSL — 2018 Local Council, Chairperson and Mayor nominated candidates | 2018 | 1 | #33 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Ngele have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.2 thousand people named Ngele in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ngele.
- How common is the name Ngele?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 2 people named Ngele in 2008, about 1 in 5.9 million residents.
What do you want to know about Ngele?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ngeleThe 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, “Ngele”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.