Mashapa Surname
Approximately 5,176 people bear this surname
Mashapa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 3,952 | 1:13,709 | 1,728 |
| Zimbabwe | 627 | 1:24,622 | 3,738 |
| DR Congo | 561 | 1:131,693 | 14,109 |
| Lesotho | 12 | 1:169,380 | 13,459 |
| Sudan | 9 | 1:4,167,799 | 5,799 |
| England | 6 | 1:9,286,343 | 223,652 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Zambia | 3 | 1:5,283,307 | 43,479 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
Mashapa (728) may also be a first name.
Mashapa Demographics
Average Mashapa Salary in
South Africa
R 145,476
Per year
Average Salary in
South Africa
R 237,638
Per year
Mashapa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mashapa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Mashapa (Marathi: मशापा) is borne by more people in South Africa than any other country/territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Mashapa? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 92,336th most common surname globally It is held by approximately 1 in 1,407,949 people. This last name is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Mashapa live; 89 percent live in Southern Africa and 89 percent live in South Bantu Africa. Mashapa is also the 305,710th most common first name world-wide. It is borne by 728 people.
This last name is most frequent in South Africa, where it is carried by 3,952 people, or 1 in 13,709. In South Africa it is most common in: Limpopo, where 47 percent live, Gauteng, where 40 percent live and North West, where 6 percent live. Barring South Africa this surname exists in 9 countries. It is also found in Zimbabwe, where 12 percent live and The DR Congo, where 11 percent live.
Mashapa Last Name Statistics demography
Mashapa earn a lot less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 38.78% less than the national average, earning R 145,476 per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Mashapa Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Mashapa in the Marathi language | ||
| मशापा | masapa | 91.67 |
| माशापा | masapa | 8.33 |
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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 Mashapa
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