Tembu Surname
Approximately 1,799 people bear this surname
Tembu Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 773 | 1:95,575 | 10,806 |
| Cameroon | 357 | 1:58,177 | 7,494 |
| South Africa | 273 | 1:198,453 | 21,324 |
| Kenya | 256 | 1:180,390 | 13,550 |
| Indonesia | 46 | 1:2,874,982 | 163,265 |
| Zimbabwe | 26 | 1:593,778 | 45,605 |
| India | 20 | 1:38,353,269 | 431,471 |
| Papua New Guinea | 20 | 1:407,686 | 53,132 |
| Qatar | 6 | 1:393,000 | 55,922 |
| Uganda | 4 | 1:9,759,820 | 144,676 |
| Nigeria | 3 | 1:59,047,586 | 507,603 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Iran | 2 | 1:38,391,262 | 236,033 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Estonia | 1 | 1:1,321,804 | 40,178 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Namibia | 1 | 1:2,409,401 | 19,676 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Zambia | 1 | 1:15,849,922 | 53,989 |
Tembu (362) may also be a first name.
Tembu Demographics
Average Tembu Salary in
South Africa
R 83,700
Per year
Average Salary in
South Africa
R 237,638
Per year
Tembu Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tembu Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Tembu (Hindi: तेम्बू, Marathi: टबु, Oriya: େତୁ) is most common in The DR Congo. It may occur in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of Tembu.
How Common Is The Last Name Tembu? popularity and diffusion
The last name Tembu is the 225,834th most frequent last name internationally It is held by around 1 in 4,050,887 people. The surname Tembu is primarily found in Africa, where 94 percent of Tembu live; 63 percent live in Central Africa and 63 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 457,558th most frequently held first name world-wide, borne by 362 people.
This surname is most commonly held in The DR Congo, where it is held by 773 people, or 1 in 95,575. Other than The DR Congo it exists in 21 countries. It is also common in Cameroon, where 20 percent are found and South Africa, where 15 percent are found.
Tembu Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the last name is chiefly Christian (100%) in Kenya.
Tembu earn less than half the average income. In South Africa they earn 64.78% less than the national average, earning R 83,700 per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Tembu Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Tembu in the Oriya language | ||
| େତୁ | etu | - |
| Tembu in the Hindi language | ||
| तेम्बू | tembu | 75 |
| तेम्बु | tembu | 25 |
| Tembu in the Marathi language | ||
| टबु | tabu | 50 |
| टबू | tabu | 33.33 |
| तबु | tabu | 16.67 |
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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 Tembu
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