Mtalama Surname
Approximately 108 people bear this surname
Mtalama Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 105 | 1:163,039 | 16,499 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
Mtalama Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mtalama Come From? nationality or country of origin
Mtalama is carried by more people in Malawi than any other country/territory. It can also occur as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Mtalama? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,765,740th most frequently held surname internationally It is held by around 1 in 67,477,277 people. The surname Mtalama is predominantly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Mtalama are found; 98 percent are found in Southern Africa and 98 percent are found in South Bantu Africa.
Mtalama is most frequent in Malawi, where it is carried by 105 people, or 1 in 163,039. Not including Malawi it occurs in 3 countries. It is also common in Iceland, where 1 percent are found and Tanzania, where 1 percent are found.
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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 Mtalama
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