Matenje Surname
Approximately 2,503 people bear this surname
Matenje Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 2,170 | 1:7,889 | 1,179 |
| Botswana | 138 | 1:15,847 | 3,103 |
| Zimbabwe | 75 | 1:205,843 | 23,645 |
| South Africa | 63 | 1:859,964 | 56,669 |
| Uganda | 33 | 1:1,183,008 | 47,935 |
| Tanzania | 7 | 1:7,563,088 | 70,659 |
| England | 6 | 1:9,286,343 | 223,652 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Wales | 3 | 1:1,031,511 | 34,732 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Zambia | 1 | 1:15,849,922 | 53,989 |
Matenje (62) may also be a first name.
Matenje Demographics
Average Matenje Salary in
South Africa
R 69,888
Per year
Average Salary in
South Africa
R 237,638
Per year
Matenje Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Matenje Come From? nationality or country of origin
Matenje is more commonly found in Malawi than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered as:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Matenje? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 171,927th most frequently occurring family name world-wide It is held by around 1 in 2,911,525 people. This last name is primarily found in Africa, where 99 percent of Matenje live; 98 percent live in Southern Africa and 98 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,246,114th most commonly held first name worldwide It is held by 62 people.
The surname is most widely held in Malawi, where it is carried by 2,170 people, or 1 in 7,889. Aside from Malawi it exists in 12 countries. It is also found in Botswana, where 6 percent reside and Zimbabwe, where 3 percent reside.
Matenje Last Name Statistics demography
Matenje earn less than half the average income. In South Africa they earn 70.59% less than the national average, earning R 69,888 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 Matenje
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