Ngumbi
surname · Latin script
Ngumbi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- TZTanzania≈1 in 6.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- KEKenya≈1 in 13K
- CMCameroon≈1 in 100K
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.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 28 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,700 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ng'Umbi 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)Ngumbi 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 | #568 | ≈8,700 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | Ng'Umbi | 14 |
| KE Kenya | #615 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 13K | Ngumbi | 28 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 169K | Ngumbi | 5 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 100K | Ngumbi | 5 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 3.1M | Ngumbi | 2 |
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.
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)Ngumbi 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 yxg, house or home
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, viena no ciltīm, kas ietilpst maku cilšu grupā, dzīvo Kamerūnas dienvidaustrumos un apkārtējos rajonos kaimiņvalstīs, valoda pieder pie bantu saimes ziemeļrietumu grupas, saglabājušies vietējie tradicionālie ticējumi (senču un dabas spēku kults)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Ngumbi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.7 thousand people named Ngumbi in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ng'umbi.
- How common is the name Ngumbi?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8,700 people in Tanzania have Ngumbi as their first surname, about 1 in 6.7 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
- How common is Ngumbi compared with other names?
- In Tanzania, Ngumbi is the 568th most common surname of 112,969 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ngumbi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ngumbiThe 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, “Ngumbi” — the 568th most common surname in Tanzania. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.