Ngari
surname · Swahili · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ngari is a surname, most frequently recorded in Kenya. In St. Martin it is the 12th most common surname. It appears chiefly in Swahili and English, written in the Latin script.
- KEKenya1 in 3.6K◐
- MFSt. Martin1 in 302
- NGNigeria1 in 781K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈16 ●
- Sources
- 63 ●
- 1 in 2.1M ◐
across 3 countries
3.9K records
Reference-verified
Switzerland
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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | #393 | 10,750 | 3.3K rec. | — | — | Ngari | 58 |
| US United States | — | 290 | 281 rec. | — | listed | Ngari | 63 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 90 | 143 rec. | — | — | Ngari | 12 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 28 | 9 rec. | — | — | Ngari | 19 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 18 | 6 rec. | — | — | Ngari | 6 |
| IN India | — | 11△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 121M | 11 | — | 2 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | 8 | 3 rec. | — | — | Ngari | 10 |
| MF St. Martin | #12 | 6 | 38 rec. | — | — | Ngari | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 4 | — | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | — | 1 | — | 1 in 11M | 1 | — | — |
| GA Gabon | — | — | — | — | 15 | — | — |
| CK Cook Islands | — | — | 0 rec. | — | 3 | — | 2 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Swahili11K91%
- English3633%
- French1771%
- Indonesian1371%
- Arabic531%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Swahili | 11,197 | 91% |
| English | 363 | 3% |
| French | 177 | 1% |
| Indonesian | 137 | 1% |
| Arabic | 53 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Ngari is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A Meitei traditional food item made of ingredients such as fermented fish
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Cebuano, near here; hereabouts
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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●
Attested in 8 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GA Gabon | Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative) | 2025 | 15 | #80 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 11 | #110,953 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| CK Cook Islands | Cook Islands Electoral Rolls (2022 General Election + 2024 Pa Enua) | 2022 | 3 | #56 |
| CK Cook Islands | Cook Islands Electoral Rolls (2022 General Election + 2024 Pa Enua) | 2022 | 3 | #61 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1 | #269,785 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #593 |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1998 | 1 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1991 | 1 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1978 | 1 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1972 | 1 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1968 | 1 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 19 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ngari?
- We estimate roughly 16 people bear Ngari (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ngari have the most bearers?
- Ngari is most frequently recorded in Kenya, where it is most often spelled ngari.
- How common is Ngari compared with other names?
- In Kenya, Ngari is the 393rd most common surname of 163,280 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.
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, “Ngari” — the 393rd most common surname in Kenya. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.