Mphela Surname
Approximately 10,949 people bear this surname
Mphela Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 10,652 | 1:5,086 | 645 |
| Botswana | 210 | 1:10,414 | 1,941 |
| Lesotho | 32 | 1:63,517 | 8,935 |
| England | 25 | 1:2,228,722 | 84,230 |
| Tanzania | 11 | 1:4,812,874 | 55,358 |
| Saudi Arabia | 9 | 1:3,428,424 | 32,607 |
| Iceland | 3 | 1:126,697 | 5,403 |
| Wales | 2 | 1:1,547,266 | 39,871 |
| Northern Ireland | 1 | 1:1,845,036 | 20,648 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Mphela (934) may also be a first name.
Mphela Demographics
Average Mphela Salary in
South Africa
R 154,524
Per year
Average Salary in
South Africa
R 237,638
Per year
Mphela Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mphela Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Mphela is held by more people in South Africa than any other country or territory. It can occur as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Mphela? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 47,287th most frequently held family name internationally, held by approximately 1 in 665,590 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Mphela are found; 99 percent are found in Southern Africa and 99 percent are found in South Bantu Africa. Mphela is also the 264,552nd most commonly occurring first name on earth, borne by 934 people.
This surname is most prevalent in South Africa, where it is held by 10,652 people, or 1 in 5,086. In South Africa Mphela is mostly concentrated in: Limpopo, where 41 percent live, Gauteng, where 38 percent live and North West, where 9 percent live. Other than South Africa it occurs in 12 countries. It also occurs in Botswana, where 2 percent live and Lesotho, where 0 percent live.
Mphela Last Name Statistics demography
Mphela earn significantly less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 34.98% less than the national average, earning R 154,524 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 Mphela
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