Kolobe Surname
Approximately 6,587 people bear this surname
Kolobe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 4,346 | 1:12,466 | 1,548 |
| Lesotho | 1,084 | 1:1,875 | 210 |
| Botswana | 634 | 1:3,449 | 469 |
| Uganda | 157 | 1:248,658 | 18,515 |
| Tanzania | 138 | 1:383,635 | 27,683 |
| Malawi | 105 | 1:163,039 | 16,499 |
| Zimbabwe | 50 | 1:308,765 | 30,783 |
| Nigeria | 31 | 1:5,714,283 | 142,531 |
| DR Congo | 21 | 1:3,518,075 | 145,665 |
| England | 8 | 1:6,964,757 | 184,742 |
| United States | 5 | 1:72,491,787 | 1,102,614 |
| Iceland | 2 | 1:190,045 | 6,825 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
Kolobe (3,171) may also be a first name.
Kolobe Demographics
Average Kolobe Salary in
South Africa
R 156,648
Per year
Average Salary in
South Africa
R 237,638
Per year
Kolobe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kolobe Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kolobe is carried by more people in South Africa than any other country/territory. It can be found as:. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kolobe? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 74,623rd most commonly occurring surname internationally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 1,106,353 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Kolobe are found; 94 percent are found in Southern Africa and 94 percent are found in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 127,649th most commonly occurring first name in the world. It is borne by 3,171 people.
The last name is most numerous in South Africa, where it is borne by 4,346 people, or 1 in 12,466. In South Africa Kolobe is mostly concentrated in: Gauteng, where 27 percent live, Free State, where 21 percent live and North West, where 20 percent live. Barring South Africa it exists in 17 countries. It is also found in Lesotho, where 16 percent live and Botswana, where 10 percent live.
Kolobe Last Name Statistics demography
Kolobe earn significantly less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 34.08% less than the national average, earning R 156,648 per year.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Kolobe
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