Malembe Surname

43,920th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 11,830 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
DR Congo
Highest density in:
Angola

Malembe Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Malembe Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
DR Congo6,4101:11,5261,430
Angola2,7611:9,7751,207
South Africa1,8451:29,3653,772
Congo3271:15,2571,875
Zambia1541:102,9228,187
Malawi1051:163,03916,499
Tanzania691:767,27042,064
Zimbabwe451:343,07232,830
Uganda271:1,445,89953,777
Mozambique161:1,703,8482,274
Switzerland151:547,52838,365
France131:5,109,440259,941
Papua New Guinea121:679,47678,554
Cameroon71:2,967,010123,373
Brazil51:42,814,866547,158
England41:13,929,515290,718
Mali41:4,242,2592,433
Canada31:12,281,864364,614
Kenya21:23,089,95083,168
Belgium11:11,496,644167,539
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
Namibia11:2,409,40119,676
India11:767,065,3821,851,717
Germany11:80,505,459560,955

Malembe (725) may also be a first name.

Malembe Last Name Facts

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

Malembe is most common in The DR Congo. It may also be rendered as:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Malembe? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 43,920th most prevalent surname world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 616,022 people. This last name is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Malembe are found; 57 percent are found in Central Africa and 57 percent are found in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 306,386th most widely held forename worldwide, borne by 725 people.

The last name is most numerous in The DR Congo, where it is carried by 6,410 people, or 1 in 11,526. Besides The DR Congo this surname occurs in 24 countries. It is also common in Angola, where 23 percent live and South Africa, where 16 percent live.

Malembe Last Name Statistics demography

Malembe earn significantly less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 33.55% less than the national average, earning R 157,920 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 Malembe
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