Mahlamba Surname

645,988th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 469 people bear this surname

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

Mahlamba Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Mahlamba Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
South Africa4401:123,13114,541
Zimbabwe221:701,73850,656
Lesotho71:290,36515,938

Mahlamba Last Name Facts

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

Mahlamba is carried by more people in South Africa than any other country/territory. It may also occur as:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Mahlamba? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 645,988th most common last name on earth It is held by around 1 in 15,538,477 people. Mahlamba occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Mahlamba live; 100 percent live in Southern Africa and 100 percent live in South Bantu Africa.

The last name Mahlamba is most commonly held in South Africa, where it is carried by 440 people, or 1 in 123,131. In South Africa it is mostly concentrated in: Free State, where 60 percent live, Gauteng, where 22 percent live and KwaZulu-Natal, where 8 percent live. Apart from South Africa it exists in 2 countries. It is also found in Zimbabwe, where 5 percent live and Lesotho, where 1 percent live.

Mahlamba Last Name Statistics demography

Mahlamba earn a lot less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 36.01% less than the national average, earning R 152,076 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 Mahlamba
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