Mlenje Surname
Approximately 689 people bear this surname
Mlenje Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 601 | 1:28,484 | 4,289 |
| Tanzania | 86 | 1:615,600 | 37,853 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Mlenje Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mlenje Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Mlenje is found most frequently in Malawi. It may also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Mlenje? popularity and diffusion
The surname Mlenje is the 483,143rd most common family name in the world, held by approximately 1 in 10,576,990 people. The surname Mlenje is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Mlenje are found; 87 percent are found in Southern Africa and 87 percent are found in South Bantu Africa.
The last name is most commonly occurring in Malawi, where it is held by 601 people, or 1 in 28,484. Outside of Malawi it occurs in 3 countries. It is also found in Tanzania, where 12 percent live and Colombia, where 0 percent live.
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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 Mlenje
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