Mteke Surname
Approximately 385 people bear this surname
Mteke Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 209 | 1:81,910 | 10,289 |
| Kenya | 119 | 1:388,066 | 22,003 |
| South Africa | 35 | 1:1,547,934 | 78,799 |
| Zimbabwe | 18 | 1:857,680 | 57,134 |
| Tanzania | 2 | 1:26,470,806 | 111,653 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Mteke Demographics
Average Mteke Salary in
South Africa
R 51,048
Per year
Average Salary in
South Africa
R 237,638
Per year
Mteke Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mteke Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Mteke is found most frequently in Malawi. It may also be found in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Mteke? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 746,827th most frequently held last name on a global scale, held by approximately 1 in 18,928,691 people. The surname Mteke is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Mteke are found; 68 percent are found in Southern Africa and 68 percent are found in South Bantu Africa.
This last name is most common in Malawi, where it is carried by 209 people, or 1 in 81,910. Besides Malawi this surname occurs in 6 countries. It is also common in Kenya, where 31 percent live and South Africa, where 9 percent live.
Mteke Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those carrying the Mteke surname is principally Christian (100%) in Kenya.
Mteke earn less than half the average income. In South Africa they earn 78.52% less than the national average, earning R 51,048 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 Mteke
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