Mahlabela Surname

737,137th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 392 people bear this surname

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

Mahlabela Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Mahlabela Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
South Africa3311:163,67918,322
Zimbabwe601:257,30427,433
Kuwait11:3,800,69427,187

Mahlabela Last Name Facts

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

The last name Mahlabela is more commonly found in South Africa than any other country or territory. It may also occur in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Mahlabela? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 737,137th most frequently held family name globally It is held by approximately 1 in 18,590,678 people. The surname Mahlabela occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Mahlabela live; 100 percent live in Southern Africa and 100 percent live in South Bantu Africa.

Mahlabela is most widely held in South Africa, where it is carried by 331 people, or 1 in 163,679. In South Africa it is mostly found in: Limpopo, where 34 percent live, Gauteng, where 30 percent live and KwaZulu-Natal, where 16 percent live. Aside from South Africa Mahlabela occurs in 2 countries. It also occurs in Zimbabwe, where 15 percent live and Kuwait, where 0 percent live.

Mahlabela Last Name Statistics demography

Mahlabela earn a lot less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 49.97% less than the national average, earning R 118,884 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
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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 Mahlabela
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