Machayi Surname
Approximately 5,711 people bear this surname
Machayi Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zambia | 5,402 | 1:2,934 | 369 |
| Tanzania | 133 | 1:398,057 | 28,212 |
| DR Congo | 62 | 1:1,191,606 | 73,277 |
| Namibia | 49 | 1:49,171 | 6,085 |
| Zimbabwe | 46 | 1:335,614 | 32,404 |
| South Africa | 10 | 1:5,417,770 | 150,016 |
| Niger | 7 | 1:2,741,717 | 49,802 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Sierra Leone | 1 | 1:7,089,631 | 1,533 |
Machayi (79) may also be a first name.
Machayi Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Machayi Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Machayi has its highest incidence in Zambia. It can be found in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of Machayi.
How Common Is The Last Name Machayi? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 84,587th most commonly used family name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by around 1 in 1,276,054 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Machayi are found; 96 percent are found in Southern Africa and 96 percent are found in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,083,225th most frequently occurring first name on earth, held by 79 people.
Machayi is most commonly used in Zambia, where it is held by 5,402 people, or 1 in 2,934. In Zambia Machayi is most common in: North-Western Province, where 64 percent are found, Copperbelt Province, where 16 percent are found and Lusaka Province, where 10 percent are found. Excluding Zambia this surname occurs in 8 countries. It also occurs in Tanzania, where 2 percent are found and The DR Congo, where 1 percent are found.
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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
- 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 Machayi
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