Mvelase Surname

28,519th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 18,845 people bear this surname

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

Mvelase Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Mvelase Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
South Africa18,5331:2,923388
Swaziland1011:12,853583
Zimbabwe861:179,51421,615
Lesotho761:26,7445,250
England371:1,505,89364,828
United States91:40,273,215872,126
Fiji11:894,3914,568
Iceland11:380,09011,096
Norway11:5,142,286129,201

Mvelase (308) may also be a first name.

Mvelase Last Name Facts

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

Mvelase is found most frequently in South Africa. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Mvelase? popularity and diffusion

It is the 28,519th most commonly held surname on a global scale, held by around 1 in 386,710 people. The surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Mvelase reside; 100 percent reside in Southern Africa and 100 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 501,377th most frequently used given name globally, borne by 308 people.

The last name Mvelase is most frequently used in South Africa, where it is carried by 18,533 people, or 1 in 2,923. In South Africa Mvelase is mostly concentrated in: KwaZulu-Natal, where 73 percent live, Gauteng, where 18 percent live and Eastern Cape, where 3 percent live. Besides South Africa Mvelase exists in 8 countries. It also occurs in Swaziland, where 1 percent live and Zimbabwe, where 0 percent live.

Mvelase Last Name Statistics demography

Mvelase earn a lot less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 35.13% less than the national average, earning R 154,164 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 Mvelase
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