Themba Surname
Approximately 11,746 people bear this surname
Themba Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 9,586 | 1:5,652 | 713 |
| Malawi | 967 | 1:17,703 | 2,784 |
| Botswana | 392 | 1:5,579 | 880 |
| Swaziland | 379 | 1:3,425 | 279 |
| India | 124 | 1:6,186,011 | 143,436 |
| Zimbabwe | 102 | 1:151,355 | 19,214 |
| DR Congo | 62 | 1:1,191,606 | 73,277 |
| Kenya | 48 | 1:962,081 | 34,106 |
| England | 35 | 1:1,591,945 | 67,242 |
| Indonesia | 15 | 1:8,816,613 | 340,855 |
| Lesotho | 12 | 1:169,380 | 13,459 |
| Iceland | 4 | 1:95,022 | 4,787 |
| Brazil | 3 | 1:71,358,111 | 770,017 |
| Turkey | 3 | 1:25,940,474 | 162,557 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| Tanzania | 2 | 1:26,470,806 | 111,653 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Taiwan | 1 | 1:23,444,746 | 93,622 |
| Mozambique | 1 | 1:27,261,569 | 7,432 |
| Uruguay | 1 | 1:3,431,758 | 38,295 |
| Zambia | 1 | 1:15,849,922 | 53,989 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
Themba (130,494) may also be a first name.
Themba Demographics
Average Themba Salary in
South Africa
R 164,856
Per year
Average Salary in
South Africa
R 237,638
Per year
Themba Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Themba Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Themba is carried by more people in South Africa than any other country or territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of Themba.
How Common Is The Last Name Themba? popularity and diffusion
Themba is the 44,217th most prevalent surname internationally, held by approximately 1 in 620,428 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 98 percent of Themba live; 97 percent live in Southern Africa and 97 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 7,989th most commonly occurring given name globally It is held by 130,494 people.
This surname is most numerous in South Africa, where it is held by 9,586 people, or 1 in 5,652. In South Africa Themba is most common in: Mpumalanga, where 45 percent live, Gauteng, where 31 percent live and Limpopo, where 9 percent live. Other than South Africa Themba is found in 24 countries. It also occurs in Malawi, where 8 percent live and Botswana, where 3 percent live.
Themba Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those holding the Themba last name is primarily Christian (100%) in Kenya.
Themba earn significantly less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 30.63% less than the national average, earning R 164,856 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
- 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 Themba
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