Malele Surname
Approximately 18,014 people bear this surname
Malele Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 8,645 | 1:6,267 | 803 |
| DR Congo | 2,839 | 1:26,023 | 3,271 |
| Tanzania | 2,455 | 1:21,565 | 2,681 |
| Malawi | 706 | 1:24,248 | 3,692 |
| Zambia | 679 | 1:23,343 | 2,503 |
| Botswana | 651 | 1:3,359 | 451 |
| Kenya | 594 | 1:77,744 | 7,233 |
| Uganda | 256 | 1:152,497 | 13,471 |
| Somalia | 245 | 1:54,906 | 2,420 |
| Cameroon | 220 | 1:94,405 | 11,260 |
| Congo | 125 | 1:39,913 | 3,755 |
| Papua New Guinea | 106 | 1:76,922 | 10,108 |
| Bolivia | 102 | 1:104,083 | 4,003 |
| Indonesia | 91 | 1:1,453,288 | 98,507 |
| Zimbabwe | 65 | 1:237,511 | 26,018 |
| Solomon Islands | 50 | 1:11,601 | 2,083 |
| Senegal | 37 | 1:394,036 | 1,909 |
| Niger | 31 | 1:619,097 | 15,317 |
| United States | 20 | 1:18,122,947 | 588,089 |
| American Samoa | 19 | 1:2,935 | 631 |
| Nigeria | 16 | 1:11,071,422 | 210,388 |
| England | 9 | 1:6,190,895 | 170,599 |
| Samoa | 9 | 1:21,534 | 479 |
| Germany | 7 | 1:11,500,780 | 305,602 |
| Ivory Coast | 6 | 1:3,845,205 | 48,272 |
| Switzerland | 4 | 1:2,053,229 | 97,179 |
| Mozambique | 4 | 1:6,815,392 | 4,272 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Canada | 2 | 1:18,422,796 | 409,488 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Taiwan | 1 | 1:23,444,746 | 93,622 |
| Tonga | 1 | 1:107,313 | 791 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 1:7,335,483 | 16,643 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Fiji | 1 | 1:894,391 | 4,568 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
The alternate forms: Maléle (1) & Malélé (1) are calculated separately.
Malele (3,548) may also be a first name.
Malele Demographics
Malele Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Malele Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Malele Come From? nationality or country of origin
Malele occurs most in South Africa. It may appear in the variant forms: Maléle or Malélé. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Malele? popularity and diffusion
Malele is the 29,711th most commonly held last name globally, held by approximately 1 in 404,549 people. The last name is mostly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Malele are found; 60 percent are found in Southern Africa and 60 percent are found in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 118,976th most numerous first name world-wide, borne by 3,548 people.
Malele is most widespread in South Africa, where it is carried by 8,645 people, or 1 in 6,267. In South Africa it is primarily concentrated in: Mpumalanga, where 51 percent reside, Gauteng, where 29 percent reside and Limpopo, where 12 percent reside. Excluding South Africa this last name occurs in 46 countries. It also occurs in The DR Congo, where 16 percent reside and Tanzania, where 14 percent reside.
Malele Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those carrying the Malele last name is principally Muslim (75%) in Kenya.
The amount Malele earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 28.39% less than the national average, earning R 170,184 per year and in United States they earn 26.27% more than the national average, earning $54,485 USD 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
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