Matjelo Surname
Approximately 279 people bear this surname
Matjelo Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lesotho | 266 | 1:7,641 | 1,672 |
| South Africa | 13 | 1:4,167,516 | 132,322 |
Matjelo (16) may also be a first name.
Matjelo Demographics
Average Matjelo Salary in
South Africa
R 153,576
Per year
Average Salary in
South Africa
R 237,638
Per year
Matjelo Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Matjelo Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Matjelo is carried by more people in Lesotho than any other country or territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Matjelo? popularity and diffusion
The last name Matjelo is the 940,398th most frequently used surname in the world It is held by around 1 in 26,120,236 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Matjelo live; 100 percent live in Southern Africa and 100 percent live in South Bantu Africa. Matjelo is also the 2,786,762nd most common given name worldwide. It is borne by 16 people.
The last name Matjelo is most commonly occurring in Lesotho, where it is borne by 266 people, or 1 in 7,641. In Lesotho it is most frequent in: Butha-Buthe District, where 85 percent live, Maseru District, where 6 percent live and Berea District, where 5 percent live. Excluding Lesotho this last name occurs in one country. It also occurs in South Africa, where 5 percent live.
Matjelo Last Name Statistics demography
Matjelo earn a lot less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 35.37% less than the national average, earning R 153,576 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 Matjelo
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