Molete Surname
Approximately 12,707 people bear this surname
Molete Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 11,047 | 1:4,904 | 624 |
| Lesotho | 1,203 | 1:1,690 | 174 |
| Botswana | 292 | 1:7,489 | 1,316 |
| Romania | 102 | 1:196,842 | 19,741 |
| England | 26 | 1:2,143,002 | 82,017 |
| Brazil | 5 | 1:42,814,866 | 547,158 |
| Congo | 5 | 1:997,819 | 17,129 |
| Zambia | 4 | 1:3,962,480 | 38,524 |
| Singapore | 4 | 1:1,376,926 | 28,409 |
| Nigeria | 3 | 1:59,047,586 | 507,603 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
Molete (1,194) may also be a first name.
Molete Demographics
Average Molete Salary in
South Africa
R 158,268
Per year
Average Salary in
South Africa
R 237,638
Per year
Molete Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Molete Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Molete occurs most in South Africa. It can also occur as:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Molete? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 41,160th most frequently occurring family name in the world, held by approximately 1 in 573,506 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Molete live; 99 percent live in Southern Africa and 99 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 229,358th most numerous forename in the world, borne by 1,194 people.
The surname Molete is most frequently occurring in South Africa, where it is carried by 11,047 people, or 1 in 4,904. In South Africa Molete is mostly found in: Free State, where 32 percent reside, North West, where 30 percent reside and Gauteng, where 27 percent reside. Excluding South Africa this last name occurs in 24 countries. It also occurs in Lesotho, where 9 percent reside and Botswana, where 2 percent reside.
Molete Last Name Statistics demography
Molete earn significantly less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 33.4% less than the national average, earning R 158,268 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 Molete
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