Ngwena
surname · Latin script
Meaning: crocodile
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register), 2002
Ngwena is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Zimbabwe than in any other country.
- ZWZimbabwe≈1 in 15K(inferred from the name graph)
- TZTanzania≈1 in 228K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 230K
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.
- Zimbabwe (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
≈990 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Zimbabwe, 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
(measured from records)crocodile
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ngwena 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZW Zimbabwe | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Ngwena | 8 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 228K | — | Ngwena | 5 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 230K | — | Ngwena | 12 |
| KE Kenya | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 334K | — | Ngwena | 13 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 5.2M | 16 | Ngwena | 8 |
| CZ Czechia | 4 | 1 in 2.7M | 4 | — | — |
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: Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 16 | #104,899 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 4 | #129,498 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ngwena mean, and where does it come from?
- crocodile Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Ngwena have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 987 people named Ngwena in Zimbabwe, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ngwena.
- How common is the name Ngwena?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 4 people named Ngwena, about 1 in 2.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Ngwena?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ngwenaThe 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, “Ngwena”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.