Ndong
surname · French · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ndong is a surname, most frequently recorded in Gabon, where it is the most common surname. It appears chiefly in French and Spanish, written in the Latin script.
- GAGabon1 in 15◐
- SNSenegal1 in 498
- ESSpain1 in 25K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.0K ●
- Sources
- 156 ●
- 1 in 25K ◐
across 7 countries
5.7K records
Official registry-verified
Spain
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●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GA Gabon | #1 | 34,844 | 561 rec. | — | 34K | Ndong | 51 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,979△ | 367 rec. | 1 in 25K | 2K | Ndong | 32 |
| SN Senegal | #48 | 1,219 | 312 rec. | — | 14 | Ndong | 33 |
| CM Cameroon | #201 | 266 | 300 rec. | — | — | Ndong | 17 |
| US United States | — | 226 | 175 rec. | — | listed | Ndong | 65 |
| GQ Equatorial Guinea | #20 | 42 | 82 rec. | — | 190 | Ndong | 13 |
| IT Italy | — | 42 | 41 rec. | — | — | Ndong | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 25 | 9 rec. | — | — | Ndong | 11 |
| FR France | — | 20 | 3.5K rec. | 1 in 3.4M | 20 | Ndong | 156 |
| SE Sweden | — | 20△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 510K | 20 | — | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 16△ | 4 rec. | 1 in 525K | 16 | — | 6 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | 13 | 10 rec. | — | — | Ndong | 9 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French41K78%
- Spanish6.1K12%
- Catalan2K4%
- Swahili1.2K2%
- English1.1K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 41,372 | 78% |
| Spanish | 6,107 | 12% |
| Catalan | 1,979 | 4% |
| Swahili | 1,189 | 2% |
| English | 1,052 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Ann Therese Ndong Jattab. 1956GMDirector for the Bureau of Education in Africa, UNESCO
- Patrick N'Guema N'Dongb. 1957GAnot in their usual nameFranco-Gabonese journalist
- Aïda Ndongb. 1967SNSenegalese basketball player (born 1967)
- Laurence Ndongb. 1971GAGabonese politician
- Boniface N'Dongb. 1977SNnot in their usual nameSenegalese basketball player (born 1977)
- Papa Madiop Ndongb. 1987SNSenegalese swimmer
- Lucien Owona-Ndongb. 1990CMCameroonian association football player
- Didier Ibrahim Ndongb. 1994GAGabonese association football player
- Higinio Ndong Obamab. 1998GQEquatorial Guinean swimmer (* 1998)
- Basilio Ndongb. 1999GQEquatorial Guinean association football player
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).
Evidence●
Attested in 17 sources across 12 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 26 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ndong?
- We estimate roughly 2.0 thousand people bear Ndong (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ndong have the most bearers?
- Ndong is most frequently recorded in Gabon, where it is most often spelled ndong.
- How common is Ndong compared with other names?
- In Gabon, Ndong is the most common surname of 6,449 surnames recorded there.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ndong” — the most common surname in Gabon. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.