Melaketso Surname

2,203,767th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 74 people bear this surname

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

Melaketso Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Melaketso Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
South Africa741:732,13151,520

Melaketso Last Name Facts

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

Melaketso is borne by more people in South Africa than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of Melaketso.

How Common Is The Last Name Melaketso? popularity and diffusion

It is the 2,203,767th most numerous surname on earth. It is borne by approximately 1 in 98,480,350 people. The surname Melaketso is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Melaketso live; 100 percent live in Southern Africa and 100 percent live in South Bantu Africa.

The surname is most frequently used in South Africa, where it is held by 74 people, or 1 in 732,131. In South Africa it is most prevalent in: Northern Cape, where 59 percent live, North West, where 32 percent live and Gauteng, where 5 percent live.

Melaketso Last Name Statistics demography

Melaketso earn a lot less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 44.23% less than the national average, earning R 132,528 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 Melaketso
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