Ndongo
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: Ministere de l'Interieur, 2025
/ndɔ̃ɡo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ndongo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country. In Cameroon it is the 34th most common surname.
- CMCameroon≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- SNSenegal≈1 in 1.2K
- CGCongo - Brazzaville≈1 in 2.3K
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.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 151 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cameroon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled N'Dongo in CI Côte d’Ivoire.
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
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)Ndongo 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 | #159 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Ndongo | 12 |
| CM Cameroon | #34 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Ndongo | 34 |
| SN Senegal | #273 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 8 | Ndongo | 27 |
| CG Congo - Brazzaville | #253 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Ndongo | 7 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | N'Dongo | 6 |
| ES Spain | — | 258 | 1 in 194K | 258 | — | 14 |
| GA Gabon | #629 | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 9K | 37 | Ndongo | 24 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024); Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative). 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Ndongo 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 kmb, Conselho
as a wordDiccionario Portuguez-Kimbundu
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Charles Ndongob. 1957CMCameroonian journalist
- Santiago Hondob. 1974GQnot in their usual nameEquatorial Guinean association football player (born 1974)
- Franck Ndongob. 1988CMCameroonian basketball player (born 1988)
- Bertrand Ndongob. 1990CMpolitical activist
- BRMXb. 1996not in their usual nameMauritanian rapper
- Jules Doret NdongoCMCameroonian politician
- Pierre A. Mvogo NdongoCMCameroonian carcinologist
- Amadou NdongoSNSenegalese artist
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 258 | #13,596 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 258 | #13,569 |
| GA Gabon | Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative) | 2025 | 37 | #58 |
| SN Senegal | DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024) | 2024 | 8 | #63 |
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
- How do you pronounce Ndongo?
- A machine transcription gives /ndɔ̃ɡo/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Ndongo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Ndongo in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ndongo.
- How common is the name Ndongo?
- In Spain, the national register counted 258 people named Ndongo, about 1 in 194 thousand residents.
- How common is Ndongo compared with other names?
- In Congo - Kinshasa, Ndongo is the 159th most common surname of 44,726 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ndongo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ndongoThe 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, “Ndongo” — the 159th most common surname in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.