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 borne by more people in South Africa than any other country or territory. It can occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Lebese? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 63,093rd most frequently held surname globally It is held by approximately 1 in 917,365 people. The last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Lebese reside; 99 percent reside in Southern Africa and 99 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 344,724th most prevalent first name globally, held by 589 people.
The last name Lebese is most frequently held in South Africa, where it is borne by 7,592 people, or 1 in 7,136. In South Africa it is most frequent in: Gauteng, where 44 percent reside, Limpopo, where 29 percent reside and North West, where 15 percent reside. Barring South Africa it exists in 12 countries. It is also found in Lesotho, where 3 percent reside and Botswana, where 1 percent reside.
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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