Menziwa Surname

111,989th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 4,141 people bear this surname

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

Menziwa Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Menziwa Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
South Africa4,0851:13,2631,667
Zambia251:633,99725,256
Zimbabwe211:735,15452,165
England51:11,143,612252,590
Angola11:26,989,21411,853
Botswana11:2,186,92930,250
Lesotho11:2,032,55823,402
Norway11:5,142,286129,201
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Menziwa (871) may also be a first name.

Menziwa Last Name Facts

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

The surname Menziwa is held by more people in South Africa than any other country/territory. It may occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Menziwa? popularity and diffusion

The last name Menziwa is the 111,989th most numerous family name in the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 1,759,852 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Menziwa live; 100 percent live in Southern Africa and 100 percent live in South Bantu Africa. Menziwa is also the 275,682nd most widely held first name world-wide, held by 871 people.

Menziwa is most numerous in South Africa, where it is borne by 4,085 people, or 1 in 13,263. In South Africa Menziwa is most frequent in: Eastern Cape, where 54 percent reside, Western Cape, where 17 percent reside and Gauteng, where 13 percent reside. Apart from South Africa this last name occurs in 8 countries. It is also common in Zambia, where 1 percent reside and Zimbabwe, where 1 percent reside.

Menziwa Last Name Statistics demography

Menziwa earn less than half the average income. In South Africa they earn 56.09% less than the national average, earning R 104,340 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 Menziwa
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