Matengu Surname
Approximately 5,146 people bear this surname
Matengu Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Namibia | 3,125 | 1:771 | 89 |
| Zambia | 1,221 | 1:12,981 | 1,482 |
| Botswana | 320 | 1:6,834 | 1,161 |
| Zimbabwe | 283 | 1:54,552 | 8,269 |
| DR Congo | 164 | 1:450,485 | 36,956 |
| South Africa | 11 | 1:4,925,246 | 143,631 |
| Tanzania | 5 | 1:10,588,323 | 75,430 |
| Canada | 4 | 1:9,211,398 | 321,528 |
| Kenya | 4 | 1:11,544,975 | 62,419 |
| India | 3 | 1:255,688,461 | 1,306,352 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Matengu (941) may also be a first name.
Matengu Demographics
Average Matengu Salary in
South Africa
R 63,432
Per year
Average Salary in
South Africa
R 237,638
Per year
Matengu Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Matengu Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Matengu is carried by more people in Namibia than any other country or territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Matengu? popularity and diffusion
Matengu is the 92,823rd most numerous last name on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 1,416,157 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Matengu live; 96 percent live in Southern Africa and 96 percent live in South Bantu Africa. Matengu is also the 263,438th most frequently occurring forename at a global level, borne by 941 people.
The last name is most common in Namibia, where it is carried by 3,125 people, or 1 in 771. In Namibia Matengu is mostly concentrated in: Zambezi Region, where 59 percent are found, ǁKaras Region, where 9 percent are found and Kavango East Region, where 8 percent are found. Besides Namibia this surname occurs in 15 countries. It is also common in Zambia, where 24 percent are found and Botswana, where 6 percent are found.
Matengu Last Name Statistics demography
Matengu earn less than half the average income. In South Africa they earn 73.31% less than the national average, earning R 63,432 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 Matengu
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