Meintjies Surname

100,686th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 4,690 people bear this surname

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

Meintjies Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Meintjies Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
South Africa4,5481:11,9121,491
Namibia1141:21,1353,646
England121:4,643,172139,951
Scotland41:1,338,45435,497
Canada31:12,281,864364,614
Thailand21:35,319,172966,191
Botswana11:2,186,92930,250
Brazil11:214,074,3321,693,628
New Zealand11:4,528,32355,372
Peru11:31,784,12364,452
São Tomé and Príncipe11:177,4233,686
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048
Zimbabwe11:15,438,240133,260

Meintjies Last Name Facts

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

The surname Meintjies has its highest incidence in South Africa. It can also appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Meintjies? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 100,686th most frequently held surname in the world, held by around 1 in 1,553,848 people. This surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Meintjies live; 99 percent live in Southern Africa and 99 percent live in South Bantu Africa.

The last name Meintjies is most numerous in South Africa, where it is carried by 4,548 people, or 1 in 11,912. In South Africa Meintjies is most prevalent in: Western Cape, where 31 percent are found, Gauteng, where 19 percent are found and Eastern Cape, where 13 percent are found. Barring South Africa this last name exists in 12 countries. It also occurs in Namibia, where 2 percent are found and England, where 0 percent are found.

Meintjies Last Name Statistics demography

Meintjies earn notably less less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 18.6% less than the national average, earning R 193,428 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 Meintjies
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