Mgenya Surname
Approximately 24 people bear this surname
Mgenya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 18 | 1:3,009,872 | 112,058 |
| Kenya | 6 | 1:7,696,650 | 52,907 |
Mgenya Demographics
Average Mgenya Salary in
South Africa
R 103,704
Per year
Average Salary in
South Africa
R 237,638
Per year
Mgenya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mgenya Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Mgenya is borne by more people in South Africa than any other country or territory. It can also occur in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Mgenya? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 4,034,050th most frequently used family name world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 303,647,746 people. The surname Mgenya occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Mgenya reside; 75 percent reside in Southern Africa and 75 percent reside in South Bantu Africa.
The last name is most frequently occurring in South Africa, where it is held by 18 people, or 1 in 3,009,872. In South Africa Mgenya is most frequent in: Mpumalanga, where 83 percent reside, Eastern Cape, where 6 percent reside and Gauteng, where 6 percent reside. Beside South Africa this last name occurs in one country. It is also common in Kenya, where 25 percent reside.
Mgenya Last Name Statistics demography
Mgenya earn less than half the average income. In South Africa they earn 56.36% less than the national average, earning R 103,704 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 Mgenya
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