Madongo Surname
Approximately 1,056 people bear this surname
Madongo Surname Definition:
Madongo is a surname of the Tumbuka tribe, meaning: belonging to the soil.
Madongo Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zimbabwe | 305 | 1:50,617 | 7,714 |
| DR Congo | 280 | 1:263,856 | 24,810 |
| Tanzania | 267 | 1:198,283 | 16,956 |
| Botswana | 72 | 1:30,374 | 6,067 |
| South Africa | 50 | 1:1,083,554 | 64,652 |
| Cameroon | 44 | 1:472,024 | 38,779 |
| Uganda | 26 | 1:1,501,511 | 54,973 |
| Indonesia | 4 | 1:33,062,298 | 643,618 |
| Kenya | 3 | 1:15,393,300 | 77,493 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Malawi | 1 | 1:17,119,109 | 34,144 |
| Zambia | 1 | 1:15,849,922 | 53,989 |
Madongo (86) may also be a first name.
Madongo Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
Madongo is a surname of the Tumbuka tribe, meaning: belonging to the soil.
Madongo Demographics
Average Madongo Salary in
South Africa
R 159,492
Per year
Average Salary in
South Africa
R 237,638
Per year
Madongo Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Madongo Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Madongo is found most in Zimbabwe. It may also be found in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of Madongo.
How Common Is The Last Name Madongo? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 346,411th most frequently held surname at a global level It is held by approximately 1 in 6,901,085 people. The last name Madongo occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Madongo are found; 41 percent are found in Southern Africa and 41 percent are found in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,032,266th most numerous first name at a global level It is held by 86 people.
Madongo is most commonly held in Zimbabwe, where it is carried by 305 people, or 1 in 50,617. In Zimbabwe it is mostly found in: Harare Province, where 23 percent are found, Bulawayo Province, where 20 percent are found and Matabeleland South Province, where 13 percent are found. Not including Zimbabwe this last name is found in 12 countries. It is also common in The DR Congo, where 27 percent are found and Tanzania, where 25 percent are found.
Madongo Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those holding the Madongo last name is chiefly Christian (100%) in Kenya.
Madongo earn significantly less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 32.88% less than the national average, earning R 159,492 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
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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 Madongo
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