Sehlapelo Surname

205,178th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 2,023 people bear this surname

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

Sehlapelo Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Sehlapelo Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
South Africa2,0141:26,9013,434
England41:13,929,515290,718
United States21:181,229,4661,556,795
Iceland11:380,09011,096
Scotland11:5,353,81763,002
South Korea11:51,240,2568,015

Sehlapelo (86) may also be a first name.

Sehlapelo Last Name Facts

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

The last name Sehlapelo is held by more people in South Africa than any other country/territory. It may appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Sehlapelo click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Sehlapelo? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 205,178th most commonly occurring family name on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 3,602,346 people. The last name is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Sehlapelo are found; 100 percent are found in Southern Africa and 100 percent are found in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,032,266th most frequently used first name internationally, held by 86 people.

This surname is most commonly held in South Africa, where it is borne by 2,014 people, or 1 in 26,901. In South Africa it is most common in: Limpopo, where 61 percent live, Gauteng, where 32 percent live and Eastern Cape, where 2 percent live. Outside of South Africa Sehlapelo is found in 5 countries. It also occurs in England, where 0 percent live and The United States, where 0 percent live.

Sehlapelo Last Name Statistics demography

Sehlapelo earn notably less less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 19.76% less than the national average, earning R 190,680 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 Sehlapelo
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