Sengwane Surname

667,223rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 449 people bear this surname

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

Sengwane Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Sengwane Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
South Africa4451:121,74814,417
England21:27,859,030389,889
Swaziland11:1,298,1991,718
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Sengwane (14) may also be a first name.

Sengwane Last Name Facts

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

The last name Sengwane is found most in South Africa. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Sengwane? popularity and diffusion

Sengwane is the 667,223rd most widespread last name internationally It is held by around 1 in 16,230,615 people. Sengwane occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Sengwane are found; 99 percent are found in Southern Africa and 99 percent are found in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 3,024,661st most widespread first name world-wide, borne by 14 people.

It is most prevalent in South Africa, where it is borne by 445 people, or 1 in 121,748. In South Africa it is most frequent in: Mpumalanga, where 39 percent live, Gauteng, where 30 percent live and Limpopo, where 21 percent live. Not including South Africa Sengwane is found in 3 countries. It is also common in England, where 0 percent live and Swaziland, where 0 percent live.

Sengwane Last Name Statistics demography

Sengwane earn a lot less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 46.67% less than the national average, earning R 126,732 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 Sengwane
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