Malekanyi Surname
Approximately 70 people bear this surname
Malekanyi Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zambia | 49 | 1:323,468 | 17,649 |
| DR Congo | 21 | 1:3,518,075 | 145,665 |
Malekanyi (41) may also be a first name.
Malekanyi Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Malekanyi Come From? nationality or country of origin
Malekanyi is found most frequently in Zambia. It may also occur as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Malekanyi? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 2,273,756th most frequently held last name in the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 104,107,799 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Malekanyi reside; 70 percent reside in Southern Africa and 70 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. Malekanyi is also the 1,590,275th most frequent forename worldwide It is held by 41 people.
This last name is most widely held in Zambia, where it is carried by 49 people, or 1 in 323,468. In Zambia Malekanyi is most prevalent in: North-Western Province, where 98 percent live and Copperbelt Province, where 2 percent live. Aside from Zambia it occurs in one country. It is also common in The DR Congo, where 30 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 Malekanyi
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