Masilela Surname
Approximately 46,834 people bear this surname
Masilela Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 41,266 | 1:1,313 | 145 |
| Swaziland | 5,002 | 1:260 | 59 |
| Zimbabwe | 442 | 1:34,928 | 5,388 |
| England | 77 | 1:723,611 | 40,488 |
| United States | 17 | 1:21,321,114 | 641,998 |
| Poland | 5 | 1:7,601,750 | 167,855 |
| Botswana | 4 | 1:546,732 | 22,624 |
| Kuwait | 4 | 1:950,174 | 18,811 |
| Saudi Arabia | 4 | 1:7,713,954 | 37,548 |
| Canada | 3 | 1:12,281,864 | 364,614 |
| Lesotho | 3 | 1:677,519 | 19,546 |
| Norway | 2 | 1:2,571,143 | 95,402 |
| Scotland | 2 | 1:2,676,908 | 51,579 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
Masilela (31) may also be a first name.
Masilela Demographics
Average Masilela Salary in
United States
$34,650 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Masilela Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Masilela Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Masilela is held by more people in South Africa than any other country or territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Masilela click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Masilela? popularity and diffusion
The surname Masilela is the 11,984th most widely held surname in the world, borne by around 1 in 155,604 people. The last name is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Masilela reside; 100 percent reside in Southern Africa and 100 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. Masilela is also the 1,874,099th most frequently used forename at a global level. It is borne by 31 people.
The surname Masilela is most widespread in South Africa, where it is borne by 41,266 people, or 1 in 1,313. In South Africa Masilela is most prevalent in: Mpumalanga, where 50 percent are found, Gauteng, where 28 percent are found and Limpopo, where 11 percent are found. Not including South Africa this last name exists in 15 countries. It is also common in Swaziland, where 11 percent are found and Zimbabwe, where 1 percent are found.
Masilela Last Name Statistics demography
The amount Masilela earn in different countries varies notably. In South Africa they earn 38.8% less than the national average, earning R 145,440 per year and in United States they earn 19.7% less than the national average, earning $34,650 USD 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 Masilela
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