Mkolesia Surname
Approximately 193 people bear this surname
Mkolesia Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 183 | 1:93,547 | 11,397 |
| South Africa | 6 | 1:9,029,617 | 189,736 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1:23,089,950 | 83,168 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Mkolesia Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mkolesia Come From? nationality or country of origin
Mkolesia is found most frequently in Malawi. It may appear as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of Mkolesia.
How Common Is The Last Name Mkolesia? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,214,709th most widely held last name globally It is held by around 1 in 37,759,305 people. It occurs predominantly in Africa, where 98 percent of Mkolesia are found; 98 percent are found in Southern Africa and 98 percent are found in South Bantu Africa.
The surname is most frequently held in Malawi, where it is held by 183 people, or 1 in 93,547. Outside of Malawi this surname occurs in 4 countries. It is also found in South Africa, where 3 percent are found and Kenya, where 1 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mkolesa | 93 | 1 | / |
| Mkolesha | 88 | 1 | / |
| Mkoleshya | 82 | 1 | / |
| Mkolisa | 80 | 2 | / |
| Mkholisa | 75 | 1 | / |
| Mkuleza | 67 | 158 | / |
| Mkulisa | 67 | 37 | / |
| Mkoliso | 67 | 6 | / |
| Mkuliza | 67 | 1 | / |
| Mqolisa | 67 | 1 | / |
| Mkalisa | 67 | 1 | / |
| Mkhulisa | 63 | 342 | / |
| Mkohliso | 63 | 6 | / |
| Mkholiso | 63 | 4 | / |
| Mkhuliza | 63 | 1 | / |
| McAleesa | 63 | 1 | / |
| McAlessa | 63 | 0 | / |
| Mkhohliso | 59 | 258 | / |
| Mhkhohliso | 56 | 1 | / |
| Mgqaleso | 50 | 10 | / |
| McCalisa | 50 | 1 | / |
| McAlesey | 50 | 0 | / |
| McKalsey | 50 | 0 | / |
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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 Mkolesia
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