Matsabe Surname
Approximately 544 people bear this surname
Matsabe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 414 | 1:130,864 | 15,308 |
| Kenya | 103 | 1:448,349 | 23,733 |
| Lesotho | 25 | 1:81,302 | 10,029 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
The alternate forms: Matšabe (1) are calculated separately.
Matsabe Demographics
Matsabe Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Matsabe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Matsabe Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Matsabe has its highest incidence in South Africa. It can be found in the variant forms: Matšabe. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Matsabe? popularity and diffusion
Matsabe is the 577,768th most frequently used family name world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 13,396,224 people. The last name Matsabe is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Matsabe reside; 81 percent reside in Southern Africa and 81 percent reside in South Bantu Africa.
This surname is most frequently used in South Africa, where it is held by 414 people, or 1 in 130,864. In South Africa Matsabe is most numerous in: Mpumalanga, where 71 percent reside, Gauteng, where 17 percent reside and Eastern Cape, where 5 percent reside. Other than South Africa it exists in 4 countries. It is also found in Kenya, where 19 percent reside and Lesotho, where 5 percent reside.
Matsabe Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the Matsabe surname is principally Christian (100%) in Kenya.
Matsabe earn a lot less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 48.88% less than the national average, earning R 121,488 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 Matsabe
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