Mashaja Surname
Approximately 308 people bear this surname
Mashaja Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 287 | 1:257,420 | 24,363 |
| South Africa | 20 | 1:2,708,885 | 106,094 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 1:5,637,083 | 32,436 |
Mashaja (55) may also be a first name.
Mashaja Demographics
Average Mashaja Salary in
South Africa
R 66,000
Per year
Average Salary in
South Africa
R 237,638
Per year
Mashaja Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mashaja Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Mashaja occurs most in The DR Congo. It may occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of Mashaja.
How Common Is The Last Name Mashaja? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 876,631st most widely held surname at a global level. It is borne by around 1 in 23,660,863 people. The surname is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Mashaja live; 93 percent live in Central Africa and 93 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. Mashaja is also the 1,336,256th most numerous first name in the world, borne by 55 people.
The surname Mashaja is most common in The DR Congo, where it is held by 287 people, or 1 in 257,420. Other than The DR Congo it occurs in 2 countries. It is also found in South Africa, where 6 percent live and Lebanon, where 0 percent live.
Mashaja Last Name Statistics demography
Mashaja earn less than half the average income. In South Africa they earn 72.23% less than the national average, earning R 66,000 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 Mashaja
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