Maroba Surname
Approximately 1,867 people bear this surname
Maroba Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lesotho | 640 | 1:3,176 | 539 |
| Tanzania | 491 | 1:107,824 | 10,467 |
| South Africa | 423 | 1:128,080 | 15,034 |
| Botswana | 243 | 1:9,000 | 1,624 |
| Zimbabwe | 18 | 1:857,680 | 57,134 |
| Spain | 15 | 1:3,116,802 | 65,296 |
| Kenya | 10 | 1:4,617,990 | 42,693 |
| Niger | 10 | 1:1,919,202 | 37,248 |
| Papua New Guinea | 6 | 1:1,358,953 | 118,663 |
| Uganda | 3 | 1:13,013,093 | 160,157 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Malawi | 1 | 1:17,119,109 | 34,144 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
The alternate forms: Marobá (1) are calculated separately.
Maroba (586) may also be a first name.
Maroba Demographics
Maroba Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Maroba Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Maroba Come From? nationality or country of origin
Maroba (Marathi: मरोबा) is found most frequently in Lesotho. It can occur as a variant: Marobá. Click here to see other potential spellings of Maroba.
How Common Is The Last Name Maroba? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 219,166th most frequently held last name throughout the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 3,903,345 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Maroba reside; 71 percent reside in Southern Africa and 71 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 345,673rd most numerous first name on earth. It is borne by 586 people.
The last name is most commonly held in Lesotho, where it is borne by 640 people, or 1 in 3,176. In Lesotho it is most frequent in: Mokhotlong District, where 41 percent live, Mohale's Hoek District, where 26 percent live and Berea District, where 13 percent live. Besides Lesotho it exists in 17 countries. It also occurs in Tanzania, where 26 percent live and South Africa, where 23 percent live.
Maroba Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those holding the Maroba surname is primarily Christian (100%) in Kenya.
Maroba earn less than half the average income. In South Africa they earn 50.14% less than the national average, earning R 118,476 per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Maroba Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Maroba in the Marathi language | ||
| मरोबा | maroba | 84.16 |
| मारोबा | maroba | 12.87 |
| मरीबा | mariba | 1.98 |
| पीमरोबा | pimaroba | 0.99 |
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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 Maroba
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