Moketsi Surname

1,168,344th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 204 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
South Africa
Highest density in:
Botswana

Moketsi Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Moketsi Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
South Africa881:615,65646,403
Botswana501:43,7398,388
Cameroon391:532,54042,124
Zimbabwe251:617,53046,943
England11:55,718,059489,080
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Moketsi (276) may also be a first name.

Moketsi Last Name Facts

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

Moketsi is carried by more people in South Africa than any other country/territory. It can also appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Moketsi? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 1,168,344th most frequent family name worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 35,723,264 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Moketsi reside; 80 percent reside in Southern Africa and 80 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. Moketsi is also the 534,713th most frequently held first name at a global level It is held by 276 people.

The surname is most frequently used in South Africa, where it is held by 88 people, or 1 in 615,656. In South Africa Moketsi is primarily concentrated in: Gauteng, where 22 percent live, North West, where 18 percent live and Free State, where 17 percent live. Barring South Africa Moketsi exists in 5 countries. It is also found in Botswana, where 25 percent live and Cameroon, where 19 percent live.

Moketsi Last Name Statistics demography

Moketsi earn less than half the average income. In South Africa they earn 52.54% less than the national average, earning R 112,776 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 Moketsi
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