Machabe Surname
Approximately 3,261 people bear this surname
Machabe Surname User-submission:
There are those who call it 'Maccabeo', a term used - in in collegiate jargon - by French medical students to indicate the corpses/cadavers (As well as the cataract - guardians of the rivers - the nineteenth century saying 'Macab' or 'the drowned').
Read More About This SurnameMachabe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 2,067 | 1:26,211 | 3,352 |
| Lesotho | 891 | 1:2,281 | 297 |
| Kenya | 162 | 1:285,061 | 18,491 |
| Zimbabwe | 72 | 1:214,420 | 24,333 |
| Tanzania | 62 | 1:853,897 | 43,657 |
| Canada | 2 | 1:18,422,796 | 409,488 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Mauritius | 1 | 1:1,293,417 | 16,552 |
Machabe (280) may also be a first name.
Machabe Surname Meaning
User-submitted Reference
There are those who call it 'Maccabeo', a term used - in in collegiate jargon - by French medical students to indicate the corpses/cadavers (As well as the cataract - guardians of the rivers - the nineteenth century saying 'Macab' or 'the drowned'). In the Transalpine region, an ancient French saying 'Ma-cabre', was referred to misfortune. In Arabic 'maqbara' means tomb and 'maqabir' cemetery; in Syrian 'Maquabrey' is the name of the undertaker (or Gravedigger). A curious discovery quite recent: in 1419 a chaplain of the Holy Innocents Church in Paris was called Laurentis Macabre.
Also in France, with the last name of a family of Troyes, French artists of the fifteenth century, who made extensive use, were designated, in fact, similar macabre representations. A rather intricate road, but certainly suggestive, is undertaken by the French scholar Naskidashvili when, finding in the dialects of the Morvan, the Meuse and the Vendôme area the term 'Abre Macabre', it refers to the clouds that fray (v. unravel or become worn) and were popularly compared to the famous Dance.
Taken and translated from Mauro Neri's Bascenis de Averaria: pittori itineranti nel Trentino (1989), pg. 81.
- rmcabeeMachabe Demographics
Average Machabe Salary in
South Africa
R 120,024
Per year
Average Salary in
South Africa
R 237,638
Per year
Machabe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Machabe Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Machabe (Marathi: माचबे) is found in South Africa more than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Machabe? popularity and diffusion
The last name Machabe is the 137,412th most commonly used last name on a global scale. It is borne by around 1 in 2,234,758 people. This last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Machabe reside; 93 percent reside in Southern Africa and 93 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. Machabe is also the 530,161st most commonly occurring first name throughout the world, borne by 280 people.
This surname is most commonly used in South Africa, where it is borne by 2,067 people, or 1 in 26,211. In South Africa Machabe is most common in: Mpumalanga, where 47 percent live, Gauteng, where 26 percent live and Free State, where 11 percent live. Besides South Africa this surname exists in 10 countries. It also occurs in Lesotho, where 27 percent live and Kenya, where 5 percent live.
Machabe Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those bearing the Machabe surname is principally Christian (100%) in Kenya.
Machabe earn a lot less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 49.49% less than the national average, earning R 120,024 per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Machabe Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Machabe in the Marathi language | ||
| माचबे | macabe | - |
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