SHENGe

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

SHENGe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ZASouth Africa≈1 in 36K(inferred from the name graph)
  • NGNigeria≈1 in 114K
  • SESweden≈1 in 893K

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.

Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,900 people, est.

Sources
16 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 36K (inferred from the name graph)

South Africa, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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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)

SHENGe 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.

Where SHENGe is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NG Nigeria≈1,900 est.≈1 in 114KSHENGe16
ZA South Africa≈1,600 est.≈1 in 36KSHENGe9
IN India≈230 est.≈1 in 5.9MSHENGe5
SE Sweden≈11 est.≈1 in 893KSHENGe7
US United States≈4 est.≈1 in 90MSHENGe16

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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

SHENGe is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Amharic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Africa, Nigeria

    Also written ሸንጌ

28 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

SHENGe 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 Zulu, Zulu praise name of the Buthelezi clan.

    as a wordsanames.co.za — South African surnames

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)

Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.

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

In which country does SHENGe have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named SHENGe in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled SHENGe.
How common is the name SHENGe?
Mondonomo estimates about 1,900 people in Nigeria have SHENGe as their first surname, about 1 in 114 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.

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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, “SHENGe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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