Machira Surname
Approximately 7,642 people bear this surname
Machira Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 3,660 | 1:4,677 | 653 |
| Kenya | 2,803 | 1:16,475 | 1,979 |
| Tanzania | 714 | 1:74,148 | 7,720 |
| Zimbabwe | 386 | 1:39,995 | 6,171 |
| Botswana | 44 | 1:49,703 | 9,263 |
| United States | 17 | 1:21,321,114 | 641,998 |
| South Africa | 4 | 1:13,544,426 | 222,367 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
Machira (759) may also be a first name.
Machira Demographics
Machira Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Machira Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Machira Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Machira is carried by more people in Malawi than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Machira? popularity and diffusion
Machira is the 65,325th most widespread family name globally, borne by approximately 1 in 953,618 people. The last name is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Machira live; 54 percent live in Southern Africa and 54 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 298,137th most widely held first name in the world. It is borne by 759 people.
The surname is most frequently occurring in Malawi, where it is carried by 3,660 people, or 1 in 4,677. Beside Malawi this last name is found in 18 countries. It also occurs in Kenya, where 37 percent are found and Tanzania, where 9 percent are found.
Machira Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those holding the surname is primarily Christian (100%) in Kenya.
Machira earn significantly less than the average income. In United States they earn 27.98% less than the national average, earning $31,075 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
- 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 Machira
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