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 last name Lebese is found most in South Africa. It may also be found as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Lebese? popularity and diffusion
The last name Lebese is the 63,093rd most widespread surname on a worldwide basis, borne by approximately 1 in 917,365 people. The last name is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Lebese live; 99 percent live in Southern Africa and 99 percent live in South Bantu Africa. Lebese is also the 344,724th most prevalent first name at a global level. It is borne by 589 people.
Lebese is most prevalent in South Africa, where it is borne by 7,592 people, or 1 in 7,136. In South Africa Lebese is most prevalent in: Gauteng, where 44 percent are found, Limpopo, where 29 percent are found and North West, where 15 percent are found. Excluding South Africa this surname is found in 12 countries. It is also common in Lesotho, where 3 percent are found and Botswana, where 1 percent are found.
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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- 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 Lebese
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