Lingela Surname

487,389th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 681 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
South Africa
Highest density in:
Lesotho

Lingela Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Lingela Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
South Africa6091:88,96210,902
Lesotho291:70,0889,364
DR Congo271:2,736,280122,818
Zambia131:1,219,22530,856
Botswana11:2,186,92930,250
Brazil11:214,074,3321,693,628
Iceland11:380,09011,096

Lingela Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Lingela Come From? nationality or country of origin

Lingela occurs more in South Africa more than any other country or territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Lingela? popularity and diffusion

The surname Lingela is the 487,389th most commonly used family name on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 10,701,242 people. This surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Lingela live; 96 percent live in Southern Africa and 96 percent live in South Bantu Africa.

The surname is most widely held in South Africa, where it is borne by 609 people, or 1 in 88,962. In South Africa it is mostly concentrated in: Eastern Cape, where 62 percent are found, North West, where 19 percent are found and Gauteng, where 9 percent are found. Barring South Africa this surname is found in 6 countries. It also occurs in Lesotho, where 4 percent are found and The DR Congo, where 4 percent are found.

Lingela Last Name Statistics demography

Lingela earn less than half the average income. In South Africa they earn 54.75% less than the national average, earning R 107,532 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
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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 Lingela
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