Madontsela Surname

1,305,105th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 173 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
South Africa
Highest density in:
South Africa

Madontsela Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Madontsela Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
South Africa1711:316,82930,013
Lesotho11:2,032,55823,402
Norway11:5,142,286129,201

Madontsela Last Name Facts

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

The surname Madontsela occurs more in South Africa more than any other country or territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Madontsela? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 1,305,105th most frequently used family name at a global level It is held by approximately 1 in 42,124,543 people. The surname Madontsela occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Madontsela live; 99 percent live in Southern Africa and 99 percent live in South Bantu Africa.

This last name is most commonly used in South Africa, where it is carried by 171 people, or 1 in 316,829. In South Africa it is most frequent in: Gauteng, where 49 percent live, Mpumalanga, where 23 percent live and KwaZulu-Natal, where 11 percent live. Beside South Africa this surname is found in 2 countries. It also occurs in Lesotho, where 1 percent live and Norway, where 1 percent live.

Madontsela Last Name Statistics demography

Madontsela earn less than half the average income. In South Africa they earn 65.14% less than the national average, earning R 82,848 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 Madontsela
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