Mafona Surname
Approximately 305 people bear this surname
Mafona Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 248 | 1:218,458 | 22,930 |
| Cameroon | 35 | 1:593,402 | 45,326 |
| Lesotho | 15 | 1:135,504 | 12,442 |
| Uganda | 5 | 1:7,807,856 | 134,263 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
Mafona (93) may also be a first name.
Mafona Demographics
Average Mafona Salary in
South Africa
R 147,468
Per year
Average Salary in
South Africa
R 237,638
Per year
Mafona Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mafona Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Mafona occurs more in South Africa more than any other country/territory. It may appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Mafona? popularity and diffusion
The surname Mafona is the 883,255th most widely held last name internationally. It is borne by around 1 in 23,893,593 people. The surname Mafona occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Mafona live; 87 percent live in Southern Africa and 87 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 986,211th most frequently held first name globally, borne by 93 people.
This last name is most frequently used in South Africa, where it is held by 248 people, or 1 in 218,458. In South Africa it is mostly concentrated in: Limpopo, where 50 percent live, Gauteng, where 26 percent live and North West, where 16 percent live. Aside from South Africa it exists in 5 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 11 percent live and Lesotho, where 5 percent live.
Mafona Last Name Statistics demography
Mafona earn a lot less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 37.94% less than the national average, earning R 147,468 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 Mafona
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