Mashele Surname
Approximately 34,868 people bear this surname
Mashele Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 34,379 | 1:1,576 | 190 |
| Tanzania | 251 | 1:210,923 | 17,752 |
| Zimbabwe | 109 | 1:141,635 | 18,305 |
| DR Congo | 68 | 1:1,086,464 | 68,260 |
| England | 25 | 1:2,228,722 | 84,230 |
| Swaziland | 9 | 1:144,244 | 719 |
| Kenya | 5 | 1:9,235,980 | 55,978 |
| Norway | 5 | 1:1,028,457 | 61,363 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Wales | 3 | 1:1,031,511 | 34,732 |
| Zambia | 3 | 1:5,283,307 | 43,479 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Saint Lucia | 1 | 1:178,781 | 3,800 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| South Korea | 1 | 1:51,240,256 | 8,015 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
Mashele (548) may also be a first name.
Mashele Demographics
Mashele Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Mashele Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mashele Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Mashele is most common in South Africa. It can be found in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Mashele? popularity and diffusion
The last name Mashele is the 15,994th most frequently held last name globally, borne by approximately 1 in 209,004 people. The surname Mashele is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Mashele are found; 99 percent are found in Southern Africa and 99 percent are found in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 359,856th most commonly used forename at a global level It is held by 548 people.
Mashele is most frequently used in South Africa, where it is carried by 34,379 people, or 1 in 1,576. In South Africa it is most frequent in: Limpopo, where 38 percent live, Mpumalanga, where 29 percent live and Gauteng, where 25 percent live. Other than South Africa this last name occurs in 17 countries. It is also common in Tanzania, where 1 percent live and Zimbabwe, where 0 percent live.
Mashele Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those carrying the Mashele last name is primarily Christian (100%) in Kenya.
Mashele earn significantly less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 34.5% less than the national average, earning R 155,652 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 Mashele
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