Motiang Surname

480,521st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 694 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
South Africa
Highest density in:
South Africa

Motiang Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Motiang Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
South Africa6891:78,6329,743
England21:27,859,030389,889
Australia11:26,995,701270,794
Scotland11:5,353,81763,002
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Motiang Last Name Facts

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

Motiang is most common in South Africa. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Motiang? popularity and diffusion

The last name Motiang is the 480,521st most frequent surname on earth. It is borne by approximately 1 in 10,500,787 people. The surname is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Motiang live; 99 percent live in Southern Africa and 99 percent live in South Bantu Africa.

It is most frequent in South Africa, where it is carried by 689 people, or 1 in 78,632. In South Africa it is mostly concentrated in: Gauteng, where 68 percent reside, North West, where 22 percent reside and Limpopo, where 3 percent reside. Besides South Africa this last name exists in 4 countries. It is also common in England, where 0 percent reside and Australia, where 0 percent reside.

Motiang Last Name Statistics demography

Motiang earn notably less less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 20.22% less than the national average, earning R 189,576 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 Motiang
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