Mbowane Surname

184,653rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 2,297 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
South Africa
Highest density in:
South Africa

Mbowane Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Mbowane Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
South Africa2,2761:23,8043,024
Swaziland91:144,244719
Cameroon81:2,596,134118,056
England21:27,859,030389,889
United States21:181,229,4661,556,795

Mbowane Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Mbowane Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Mbowane is carried by more people in South Africa than any other country/territory. It may be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Mbowane? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 184,653rd most prevalent family name in the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 3,172,636 people. Mbowane is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Mbowane are found; 99 percent are found in Southern Africa and 99 percent are found in South Bantu Africa.

This last name is most commonly used in South Africa, where it is held by 2,276 people, or 1 in 23,804. In South Africa it is primarily concentrated in: Mpumalanga, where 66 percent live, Gauteng, where 21 percent live and Limpopo, where 8 percent live. Outside of South Africa this last name occurs in 4 countries. It also occurs in Swaziland, where 0 percent live and Cameroon, where 0 percent live.

Mbowane Last Name Statistics demography

Mbowane earn significantly less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 28.29% less than the national average, earning R 170,400 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 Mbowane
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