Alunga
surname · Latin script
/aluŋɡɑ/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Alunga is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- KEKenya≈1 in 220Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 61Kfew records
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 11Mfew records
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.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 9 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 61K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Congo - Kinshasa, 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)Alunga 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 61K | Alunga | 2 |
| KE Kenya | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 216K | Alunga | 9 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 11M | Alunga | 5 |
| US United States | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 306M | Alunga | 4 |
| GH Ghana | — | — | Alunga | 1 |
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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Alunga 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 Romanian, to banish, expel, drive away, dismiss
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, ALUNGÁ, alúng, vb. I. Tranz. 1. (Adesea fig.) A sili pe cineva să părăsească un loc; a goni, a izgoni. 2. A se lua, a alerga după...; a fugări, a urmări.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Alunga?
- In Swahili /aluŋɡɑ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Alunga have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 thousand people named Alunga in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alunga.
- How common is the name Alunga?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1,800 people in Congo - Kinshasa have Alunga as their first surname, about 1 in 61 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alungaThe 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, “Alunga”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.