Matabela Surname

1,017,412th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 249 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
South Africa
Highest density in:
South Africa

Matabela Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Matabela Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
South Africa2181:248,52225,292
Zimbabwe211:735,15452,165
Mozambique91:3,029,0632,946
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Matabela Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Matabela Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Matabela is found most frequently in South Africa. It can be rendered as:. For other potential spellings of Matabela click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Matabela? popularity and diffusion

Matabela is the 1,017,412th most frequent last name internationally, borne by approximately 1 in 29,267,253 people. Matabela occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Matabela are found; 100 percent are found in Southern Africa and 96 percent are found in South Bantu Africa.

This surname is most widely held in South Africa, where it is borne by 218 people, or 1 in 248,522. In South Africa it is most numerous in: Gauteng, where 39 percent reside, Mpumalanga, where 29 percent reside and KwaZulu-Natal, where 22 percent reside. Without taking into account South Africa it exists in 3 countries. It is also common in Zimbabwe, where 8 percent reside and Mozambique, where 4 percent reside.

Matabela Last Name Statistics demography

Matabela earn a lot less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 37.25% less than the national average, earning R 149,112 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
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  • 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 Matabela
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