Meyiwa Surname
Approximately 4,808 people bear this surname
Meyiwa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 4,677 | 1:11,584 | 1,443 |
| Nigeria | 114 | 1:1,553,884 | 58,636 |
| England | 9 | 1:6,190,895 | 170,599 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Meyiwa (592) may also be a first name.
Meyiwa Demographics
Average Meyiwa Salary in
South Africa
R 125,208
Per year
Average Salary in
South Africa
R 237,638
Per year
Meyiwa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Meyiwa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Meyiwa has its highest incidence in South Africa. It can be rendered as a variant:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Meyiwa? popularity and diffusion
The surname Meyiwa is the 98,592nd most commonly used last name throughout the world, held by approximately 1 in 1,515,713 people. The surname is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Meyiwa reside; 97 percent reside in Southern Africa and 97 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 343,796th most widespread first name world-wide It is held by 592 people.
This surname is most widely held in South Africa, where it is carried by 4,677 people, or 1 in 11,584. In South Africa Meyiwa is most frequent in: KwaZulu-Natal, where 82 percent live, Gauteng, where 8 percent live and Eastern Cape, where 4 percent live. Outside of South Africa it is found in 9 countries. It also occurs in Nigeria, where 2 percent live and England, where 0 percent live.
Meyiwa Last Name Statistics demography
Meyiwa earn a lot less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 47.31% less than the national average, earning R 125,208 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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Meyiwa
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