Malakasi Surname

630,290th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 485 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Malawi
Highest density in:
Malawi

Malakasi Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Malakasi Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Malawi3661:46,7746,615
Greece1101:100,72516,923
Philippines61:16,873,037249,062
England21:27,859,030389,889
India11:767,065,3821,851,717

Malakasi (23) may also be a first name.

Malakasi Last Name Facts

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

The surname Malakasi is found most in Malawi. It may be rendered as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Malakasi? popularity and diffusion

It is the 630,290th most widely held last name in the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 15,025,868 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 75 percent of Malakasi reside; 75 percent reside in Southern Africa and 75 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. Malakasi is also the 2,239,265th most commonly held first name at a global level It is held by 23 people.

It is most frequently occurring in Malawi, where it is carried by 366 people, or 1 in 46,774. Apart from Malawi it occurs in 4 countries. It also occurs in Greece, where 23 percent live and The Philippines, where 1 percent live.

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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 Malakasi
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