Molefe Surname
Approximately 97,934 people bear this surname
Molefe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 85,700 | 1:632 | 47 |
| Botswana | 9,183 | 1:238 | 1 |
| Lesotho | 2,710 | 1:750 | 40 |
| England | 154 | 1:361,806 | 25,827 |
| Kuwait | 39 | 1:97,454 | 10,676 |
| DR Congo | 34 | 1:2,172,929 | 106,971 |
| United States | 21 | 1:17,259,949 | 572,238 |
| Namibia | 13 | 1:185,339 | 9,730 |
| Canada | 12 | 1:3,070,466 | 169,836 |
| Iceland | 12 | 1:31,674 | 2,357 |
| Scotland | 10 | 1:535,382 | 20,332 |
| Germany | 8 | 1:10,063,182 | 283,807 |
| Qatar | 6 | 1:393,000 | 55,922 |
| Australia | 5 | 1:5,399,140 | 162,351 |
| Norway | 5 | 1:1,028,457 | 61,363 |
| Somalia | 4 | 1:3,363,015 | 5,093 |
| Zimbabwe | 4 | 1:3,859,560 | 114,807 |
| Northern Ireland | 2 | 1:922,518 | 18,701 |
| Wales | 2 | 1:1,547,266 | 39,871 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| Bahrain | 1 | 1:1,348,608 | 10,432 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Swaziland | 1 | 1:1,298,199 | 1,718 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Zambia | 1 | 1:15,849,922 | 53,989 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
Molefe (15,594) may also be a first name.
Molefe Demographics
Average Molefe Salary in
United States
$19,250 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Molefe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Molefe Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Molefe occurs most in South Africa. It can appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Molefe? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 5,763rd most widely held surname throughout the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 74,413 people. The last name Molefe is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Molefe reside; 100 percent reside in Southern Africa and 100 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. Molefe is also the 45,168th most frequently used given name globally, held by 15,594 people.
It is the most frequent last name in one country:Botswana, where 9 percent reside. This last name is most widely held in South Africa, where it is held by 85,700 people, or 1 in 632. In South Africa it is mostly found in: Gauteng, where 34 percent reside, North West, where 29 percent reside and KwaZulu-Natal, where 14 percent reside. Apart from South Africa it occurs in 28 countries. It is also common in Botswana, where 9 percent reside and Lesotho, where 3 percent reside.
Molefe Last Name Statistics demography
The amount Molefe earn in different countries varies notably. In South Africa they earn 35.05% less than the national average, earning R 154,356 per year and in United States they earn 55.39% less than the national average, earning $19,250 USD 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 Molefe
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