Matengula Surname
Approximately 987 people bear this surname
Matengula Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 784 | 1:21,836 | 3,343 |
| Tanzania | 131 | 1:404,134 | 28,508 |
| DR Congo | 41 | 1:1,801,941 | 95,514 |
| Zambia | 27 | 1:587,034 | 24,185 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Matengula Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Matengula Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Matengula is carried by more people in Malawi than any other country or territory. It can be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Matengula? popularity and diffusion
Matengula is the 365,442nd most commonly held surname at a global level, held by around 1 in 7,383,532 people. This surname is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Matengula live; 82 percent live in Southern Africa and 82 percent live in South Bantu Africa.
The surname is most frequently held in Malawi, where it is carried by 784 people, or 1 in 21,836. Excluding Malawi this last name exists in 5 countries. It is also common in Tanzania, where 13 percent are found and The DR Congo, where 4 percent are found.
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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 Matengula
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