Mafote Surname
Approximately 243 people bear this surname
Mafote Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Botswana | 232 | 1:9,426 | 1,714 |
| Brazil | 5 | 1:42,814,866 | 547,158 |
| Zimbabwe | 3 | 1:5,146,080 | 115,446 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Paraguay | 1 | 1:7,236,746 | 16,511 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Mafote Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mafote Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Mafote occurs in Botswana more than any other country or territory. It can occur as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of Mafote.
How Common Is The Last Name Mafote? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,035,555th most common surname on earth, held by approximately 1 in 29,989,901 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 97 percent of Mafote live; 97 percent live in Southern Africa and 97 percent live in South Bantu Africa.
This last name is most frequently used in Botswana, where it is carried by 232 people, or 1 in 9,426. Excluding Botswana it occurs in 5 countries. It also occurs in Brazil, where 2 percent reside and Zimbabwe, where 1 percent reside.
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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 Mafote
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