Malatjie Surname

49,182nd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 10,469 people bear this surname

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

Malatjie Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Malatjie Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
South Africa10,4491:5,185656
England101:5,571,806158,774
United States51:72,491,7871,102,614
Iceland11:380,09011,096
Lesotho11:2,032,55823,402
Mozambique11:27,261,5697,432
Poland11:38,008,749231,653
Swaziland11:1,298,1991,718

Malatjie (86) may also be a first name.

Malatjie Last Name Facts

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

Malatjie occurs more in South Africa more than any other country or territory. It can be found as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Malatjie? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 49,182nd most commonly used family name on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 696,107 people. The surname Malatjie occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Malatjie live; 100 percent live in Southern Africa and 100 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,032,266th most frequent first name in the world. It is borne by 86 people.

It is most commonly held in South Africa, where it is borne by 10,449 people, or 1 in 5,185. In South Africa Malatjie is primarily concentrated in: Limpopo, where 43 percent live, Mpumalanga, where 27 percent live and Gauteng, where 23 percent live. Not including South Africa this last name is found in 7 countries. It is also common in England, where 0 percent live and The United States, where 0 percent live.

Malatjie Last Name Statistics demography

Malatjie earn a lot less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 48.88% less than the national average, earning R 121,488 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 Malatjie
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