Rantamo Surname

919,444th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 288 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
South Africa
Highest density in:
Lesotho

Rantamo Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Rantamo Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
South Africa2051:264,28126,485
Finland501:109,93410,946
Lesotho331:61,5938,794

Rantamo Last Name Facts

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

Rantamo is held by more people in South Africa than any other country or territory. It can also occur in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Rantamo? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 919,444th most common last name world-wide It is held by around 1 in 25,303,979 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 83 percent of Rantamo live; 83 percent live in Southern Africa and 83 percent live in South Bantu Africa.

The last name Rantamo is most commonly used in South Africa, where it is carried by 205 people, or 1 in 264,281. In South Africa Rantamo is most common in: Free State, where 84 percent live, Gauteng, where 12 percent live and North West, where 2 percent live. Not including South Africa it occurs in 2 countries. It is also found in Finland, where 17 percent live and Lesotho, where 11 percent live.

Rantamo Last Name Statistics demography

Rantamo earn less than half the average income. In South Africa they earn 67.3% less than the national average, earning R 77,700 per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Raintamo933/
Ranthamo933/
Rantama8687/
Raintama80248/
Rantamaa80220/
Ranthama80106/
Rantauma804/
Rantamma803/
Ranthamma753/
Rantaumas752/
Rantema7115/
Rantoma7114/
Ranteuma6734/
Rantomaa6710/

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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 Rantamo
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