Ngwa
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A clan within the Igbo people of Nigeria
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ŋwə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ngwa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 456K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 232Kas Aba
- ESSpain1 in 352Kas Aba
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ngwa itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 53 (measured from records)
- 1 in 456K (inferred from the name graph)
231 named Aba, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Aba in AR Argentina, US United States, ES Spain.
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
(measured from records)A clan within the Igbo people of Nigeria.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ngwa 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.
231 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)Ngwa is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In cdo, ( I ' A tile ； a generic terra for earthen ware, pottery;
as a wordAn Alphabetic Dictionary of the Chinese Language in the Foochow Dialect
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)- BeBe Zahara Benetb. 1981CMnot in their usual nameCameroonian-American entertainer
- Blaise Ngwab. 1982Cameroonian football referee
- Ken Ngwab. 1983USAmerican writer
- Gideon A. NgwaGBD.Phil. University of Oxford 1993
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 417 | #53,526 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 187 | #97,210 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 12 | #53,753 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 9 | #126,713 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 5 | #56,366 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (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 Ngwa mean, and where does it come from?
- A clan within the Igbo people of Nigeria. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ngwa?
- A machine transcription gives /ŋwə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ngwa have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 231 people named Aba, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ngwa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ngwa is densest in Norway — about 1 in 456 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ngwa?
- In Norway, the national register counted 12 people named Ngwa, about 1 in 456 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ngwa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ngwaThe 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, “Ngwa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.