Maseme Surname
Approximately 868 people bear this surname
Maseme Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 682 | 1:79,439 | 9,828 |
| Tanzania | 98 | 1:540,221 | 34,788 |
| Kenya | 61 | 1:757,048 | 31,106 |
| DR Congo | 21 | 1:3,518,075 | 145,665 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
Maseme (97) may also be a first name.
Maseme Demographics
Maseme Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Maseme Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Maseme Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Maseme occurs in South Africa more than any other country/territory. It can occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Maseme? popularity and diffusion
Maseme is the 403,960th most frequent family name on earth. It is borne by approximately 1 in 8,395,790 people. The surname Maseme occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Maseme live; 79 percent live in Southern Africa and 79 percent live in South Bantu Africa. Maseme is also the 962,660th most frequently occurring given name globally, borne by 97 people.
The last name is most commonly used in South Africa, where it is held by 682 people, or 1 in 79,439. In South Africa it is most frequent in: Free State, where 44 percent live, Eastern Cape, where 20 percent live and Gauteng, where 10 percent live. Besides South Africa Maseme occurs in 8 countries. It is also common in Tanzania, where 11 percent live and Kenya, where 7 percent live.
Maseme Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those bearing the Maseme last name is primarily Christian (100%) in Kenya.
Maseme earn a lot less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 37.94% less than the national average, earning R 147,468 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
- 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 Maseme
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