Lebese Surname
Approximately 7,944 people bear this surname
Lebese Surname User-submission:
Lebese is a Sotho/Tswana surname in South Africa, equivalent to the surname Milk in English and Melk in Afrikaans.
Lebese Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 7,592 | 1:7,136 | 917 |
| Lesotho | 222 | 1:9,156 | 2,068 |
| Botswana | 83 | 1:26,349 | 5,307 |
| DR Congo | 27 | 1:2,736,280 | 122,818 |
| United States | 9 | 1:40,273,215 | 872,126 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
Lebese (589) may also be a first name.
Lebese Surname Meaning
User-submitted Reference
Lebese is a Sotho/Tswana surname in South Africa, equivalent to the surname Milk in English and Melk in Afrikaans.
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Average Lebese Salary in
United States
$48,125 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Lebese Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Lebese Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Lebese is more frequently found in South Africa than any other country/territory. It may also appear as a variant:. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Lebese? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 63,093rd most commonly used last name world-wide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 917,365 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Lebese are found; 99 percent are found in Southern Africa and 99 percent are found in South Bantu Africa. Lebese is also the 344,724th most widely held first name globally, held by 589 people.
It is most commonly used in South Africa, where it is carried by 7,592 people, or 1 in 7,136. In South Africa it is mostly found in: Gauteng, where 44 percent live, Limpopo, where 29 percent live and North West, where 15 percent live. Excluding South Africa this last name is found in 12 countries. It is also found in Lesotho, where 3 percent live and Botswana, where 1 percent live.
Lebese Last Name Statistics demography
The amount Lebese earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 39.68% less than the national average, earning R 143,340 per year and in United States they earn 11.53% more than the national average, earning $48,125 USD 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
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- 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 Lebese
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