Mtengu Surname
Approximately 638 people bear this surname
Mtengu Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 426 | 1:124,276 | 11,742 |
| South Africa | 151 | 1:358,793 | 32,710 |
| Zimbabwe | 61 | 1:253,086 | 27,132 |
Mtengu (14) may also be a first name.
Mtengu Demographics
Average Mtengu Salary in
South Africa
R 171,012
Per year
Average Salary in
South Africa
R 237,638
Per year
Mtengu Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mtengu Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Mtengu is found most frequently in Tanzania. It may occur as:. For other possible spellings of Mtengu click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Mtengu? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 512,152nd most commonly occurring family name world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 11,422,486 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Mtengu live; 67 percent live in East Africa and 67 percent live in East Bantu Africa. Mtengu is also the 3,024,661st most frequent first name throughout the world, borne by 14 people.
This last name is most frequent in Tanzania, where it is held by 426 people, or 1 in 124,276. In Tanzania Mtengu is primarily concentrated in: Kigoma Region, where 77 percent live, Morogoro Region, where 22 percent live and Dar es Salaam Region, where 0 percent live. Aside from Tanzania this last name occurs in 2 countries. It also occurs in South Africa, where 24 percent live and Zimbabwe, where 10 percent live.
Mtengu Last Name Statistics demography
Mtengu earn significantly less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 28.04% less than the national average, earning R 171,012 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 Mtengu
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