Tshetu Surname

380,576th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 937 people bear this surname

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

Tshetu Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Tshetu Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
South Africa5541:97,79411,890
DR Congo3491:211,68920,903
Zimbabwe311:498,00841,116
England21:27,859,030389,889
Australia11:26,995,701270,794

Tshetu Last Name Facts

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

The surname Tshetu (Tibetan: ཚེ་ཀྲུགས།) is found most frequently in South Africa. It can also appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Tshetu click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Tshetu? popularity and diffusion

It is the 380,576th most common last name throughout the world, borne by approximately 1 in 7,777,530 people. The last name Tshetu is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Tshetu live; 62 percent live in Southern Africa and 62 percent live in South Bantu Africa.

The last name Tshetu is most frequent in South Africa, where it is carried by 554 people, or 1 in 97,794. In South Africa Tshetu is most numerous in: Eastern Cape, where 48 percent live, Western Cape, where 28 percent live and Gauteng, where 10 percent live. Beside South Africa this surname occurs in 4 countries. It is also common in The DR Congo, where 37 percent live and Zimbabwe, where 3 percent live.

Tshetu Last Name Statistics demography

Tshetu earn a lot less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 42.23% less than the national average, earning R 137,292 per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Tshietu92390/
Tshethu92270/
Tsetu9175/
Tshiethu8668/
Tshethup863/
Tshitu83336/
Tsetou83328/
Tchetu834/
Tsihtu831/
Tsethu831/
Tsetup831/
Tshatu831/
Tchetou77210/
Tshitau7768/
Tsahatu7757/
Tshiotu7755/
Tcheteu7740/
Tsestou7720/
Tshithu775/
Tshaitu771/
Tshiteu771/
Tshathu771/
Tshaytu771/
Chetu73367/
Tsatu73105/
Tsitu7368/
Zhetu7322/
Tchettou7125/
Tsahatou7116/
Tcheitou711/
Tchedtou711/
Stcheteu711/
Chettu671,047/
Tsitou67245/
Cheteu67240/
Chethu67153/
Cheetu67110/
Chetou6780/
Tsateu6720/
Tsoteu6710/
Cheitu672/
Chetuy672/
Zshitu671/
Tsitau671/
Tsaitu671/
Cheatu671/
Chetgu671/
Chetau671/

Tshetu Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Tshetu in the Tibetan language
ཚེ་ཀྲུགས།tsétruk25
ཚེས་བཀྲུ།tsétru25
ཚེས་ཀྲུགས།tsétruk25
ཚེས་ཀྲུ།tsétru25

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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 Tshetu
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