Matem Surname
Approximately 439 people bear this surname
Matem Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 291 | 1:181,930 | 15,797 |
| Papua New Guinea | 31 | 1:263,023 | 35,917 |
| Bulgaria | 25 | 1:279,156 | 14,366 |
| Cameroon | 17 | 1:1,221,710 | 73,195 |
| India | 16 | 1:47,941,586 | 492,263 |
| Algeria | 13 | 1:2,971,658 | 45,332 |
| Thailand | 11 | 1:6,421,668 | 407,040 |
| United States | 6 | 1:60,409,822 | 1,028,827 |
| Brazil | 4 | 1:53,518,583 | 632,670 |
| Malaysia | 4 | 1:7,373,556 | 230,001 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Chile | 1 | 1:17,616,474 | 93,597 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| South Sudan | 1 | 1:11,415,076 | 3,182 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 1:16,739,561 | 595,711 |
Matem (319) may also be a first name.
Matem Demographics
Average Matem Salary in
United States
$20,969 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Matem Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Matem Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Matem (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻣﺎﺗﻢ, Russian: Матем, Tibetan: དམར་ཀྲེམོ།) occurs in Tanzania more than any other country/territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of Matem.
How Common Is The Last Name Matem? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 678,631st most frequent family name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by approximately 1 in 16,600,332 people. The surname is mostly found in Africa, where 75 percent of Matem live; 67 percent live in East Africa and 67 percent live in East Bantu Africa. It is also the 491,536th most prevalent forename in the world It is held by 319 people.
Matem is most commonly held in Tanzania, where it is borne by 291 people, or 1 in 181,930. In Tanzania Matem is most frequent in: Kilimanjaro Region, where 86 percent reside, Dar es Salaam Region, where 3 percent reside and Tanga Region, where 3 percent reside. Without taking into account Tanzania this surname is found in 27 countries. It is also found in Papua New Guinea, where 7 percent reside and Bulgaria, where 6 percent reside.
Matem Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Matem has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Matem surname expanded 200 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Matem Last Name Statistics demography
Matem earn less than half the average income. In United States they earn 51.4% less than the national average, earning $20,969 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Matem Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Matem in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻣﺎﺗﻢ | matm | - |
| Matem in the Tibetan language | ||
| དམར་ཀྲེམོ། | martremo | 40 |
| དམར་ཀྲེམ། | martrem | 26.67 |
| མ་ཀྲེམ། | matrem | 13.33 |
| དམར་ཀྲེམོ་ | martremo | 6.67 |
| སྨ་རྟེན་ | maten | 6.67 |
| མ་ཀྲེམོ། | matremo | 6.67 |
| Matem in the Russian language | ||
| Матем | matem | - |
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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 Matem
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