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
Average Mashele Salary in
South Africa
R 155,652
Per year
Average Salary in
South Africa
R 237,638
Per year
Mashele Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mashele Come From? nationality or country of origin
Mashele is borne by more people in South Africa than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Mashele? popularity and diffusion
The surname Mashele is the 15,994th most frequently held family name on a global scale. It is borne by around 1 in 209,004 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Mashele reside; 99 percent reside in Southern Africa and 99 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. Mashele is also the 359,856th most frequently held forename internationally, borne by 548 people.
This surname is most numerous in South Africa, where it is held by 34,379 people, or 1 in 1,576. In South Africa Mashele is most frequent in: Limpopo, where 38 percent are found, Mpumalanga, where 29 percent are found and Gauteng, where 25 percent are found. Besides South Africa it is found in 17 countries. It is also found in Tanzania, where 1 percent are found and Zimbabwe, where 0 percent are found.
Mashele Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those bearing the Mashele last name is predominantly 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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