Lekale Surname
Approximately 418 people bear this surname
Lekale Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 398 | 1:136,125 | 15,765 |
| Cameroon | 10 | 1:2,076,907 | 105,188 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| Congo | 2 | 1:2,494,548 | 28,763 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1:23,089,950 | 83,168 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
Lekale (21) may also be a first name.
Lekale Demographics
Lekale Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Lekale Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Lekale Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Lekale (Marathi: लेकळे) is carried by more people in South Africa than any other country/territory. It may be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Lekale? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 703,644th most widely held family name throughout the world. It is borne by around 1 in 17,434,320 people. The last name Lekale occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Lekale live; 95 percent live in Southern Africa and 95 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 2,368,944th most widely held first name internationally, borne by 21 people.
The last name Lekale is most frequently occurring in South Africa, where it is carried by 398 people, or 1 in 136,125. In South Africa it is most frequent in: Free State, where 53 percent reside, Gauteng, where 26 percent reside and North West, where 19 percent reside. Outside of South Africa this surname occurs in 8 countries. It is also found in Cameroon, where 2 percent reside and Belgium, where 0 percent reside.
Lekale Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those carrying the last name is principally Christian (100%) in Kenya.
Lekale earn significantly less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 30.85% less than the national average, earning R 164,316 per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Lekale Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Lekale in the Marathi language | ||
| लेकळे | lekale | - |
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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
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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 Lekale
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