Ngwale
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ngwale is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- TZTanzania≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 376K
- KEKenya≈1 in 2.3M
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)
- Sources
- 14 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, 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)
Ngwale 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 | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 1 | Ngwale | 14 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 376K | — | Ngwale | 8 |
| KE Kenya | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | — | Ngwale | 5 |
| MW Malawi | — | — | — | Ngwale | 6 |
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: INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results. 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 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results | 2020 | 1 | #12 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Ngwale have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.7 thousand people named Ngwale in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ngwale.
- How common is the name Ngwale?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4,700 people in Tanzania have Ngwale as their first surname, about 1 in 13 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Ngwale?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ngwaleThe 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, “Ngwale”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.