Matwetwe Surname
Approximately 338 people bear this surname
Matwetwe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenya | 175 | 1:263,885 | 17,546 |
| South Africa | 157 | 1:345,081 | 31,817 |
| Botswana | 4 | 1:546,732 | 22,624 |
| South Sudan | 1 | 1:11,415,076 | 3,182 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Matwetwe (46) may also be a first name.
Matwetwe Demographics
Matwetwe Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Matwetwe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Matwetwe Come From? nationality or country of origin
Matwetwe occurs more in Kenya more than any other country/territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Matwetwe? popularity and diffusion
Matwetwe is the 821,713th most frequently occurring surname throughout the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 21,560,787 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Matwetwe live; 52 percent live in East Africa and 49 percent live in Nilo-Saharan Africa. Matwetwe is also the 1,484,914th most widespread first name throughout the world, borne by 46 people.
The last name Matwetwe is most commonly held in Kenya, where it is borne by 175 people, or 1 in 263,885. In Kenya it is mostly found in: Kisii County, where 93 percent live, Nairobi County, where 2 percent live and Nakuru County, where 2 percent live. Apart from Kenya this last name exists in 4 countries. It is also found in South Africa, where 46 percent live and Botswana, where 1 percent live.
Matwetwe Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the last name is principally Christian (100%) in Kenya.
Matwetwe earn less than half the average income. In South Africa they earn 54.67% less than the national average, earning R 107,712 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
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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 Matwetwe
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