Magubane Surname

22,814th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 23,798 people bear this surname

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

Magubane Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Magubane Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
South Africa23,6541:2,290287
Swaziland1011:12,853583
England271:2,063,63279,942
United States91:40,273,215872,126
Iceland31:126,6975,403
Germany11:80,505,459560,955
Kuwait11:3,800,69427,187
Lesotho11:2,032,55823,402
Scotland11:5,353,81763,002

Magubane (18) may also be a first name.

Magubane Last Name Facts

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

The surname Magubane is borne by more people in South Africa than any other country or territory. It may also be rendered as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Magubane? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 22,814th most prevalent surname globally. It is borne by around 1 in 306,225 people. This surname is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Magubane live; 100 percent live in Southern Africa and 100 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 2,608,198th most frequent first name throughout the world. It is borne by 18 people.

This surname is most frequently occurring in South Africa, where it is borne by 23,654 people, or 1 in 2,290. In South Africa Magubane is mostly found in: KwaZulu-Natal, where 72 percent reside, Gauteng, where 19 percent reside and Mpumalanga, where 3 percent reside. Apart from South Africa Magubane exists in 8 countries. It also occurs in Swaziland, where 0 percent reside and England, where 0 percent reside.

Magubane Last Name Statistics demography

The amount Magubane earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 36.18% less than the national average, earning R 151,668 per year and in United States they earn 108.41% more than the national average, earning $89,925 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 Magubane
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