Ngeno
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ngeno is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kenya than in any other country, where it is the 92nd most common surname.
- KEKenya≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- NANamibia≈1 in 13K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 102K
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Kenya (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 56 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈41,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Kenya, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Ngeno 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | #92 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 1 | Ngeno | 44 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 102K | — | Ngeno | 8 |
| NA Namibia | #484 | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Ngeno | 2 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 913K | — | Ngeno | 6 |
| US United States | — | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 6.4M | listed | Ngeno | 56 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 3.1M | — | Ngeno | 12 |
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: Mzalendo Trust "Elections Watch" — 2022 gazetted election winners; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | Mzalendo Trust "Elections Watch" — 2022 gazetted election winners | 2022 | 1 | #1,078 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Ngeno have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 41 thousand people named Ngeno in Kenya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ngeno.
- How common is the name Ngeno?
- Mondonomo estimates about 41,000 people in Kenya have Ngeno as their first surname, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
- How common is Ngeno compared with other names?
- In Kenya, Ngeno is the 92nd most common surname of 179,147 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ngeno?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ngenoThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Ngeno” — the 92nd most common surname in Kenya. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.