Zomba Surname
Approximately 5,512 people bear this surname
Zomba Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 2,117 | 1:8,086 | 1,225 |
| DR Congo | 1,820 | 1:40,593 | 4,995 |
| South Africa | 389 | 1:139,274 | 16,054 |
| India | 301 | 1:2,548,390 | 80,848 |
| Zimbabwe | 272 | 1:56,758 | 8,599 |
| Bhutan | 188 | 1:3,277 | 203 |
| Tanzania | 110 | 1:481,287 | 32,644 |
| Zambia | 104 | 1:152,403 | 10,889 |
| Burkina Faso | 54 | 1:339,854 | 5,698 |
| Botswana | 39 | 1:56,075 | 10,323 |
| Cameroon | 27 | 1:769,225 | 54,005 |
| Russia | 17 | 1:8,477,827 | 301,506 |
| Angola | 16 | 1:1,686,826 | 3,823 |
| Nigeria | 10 | 1:17,714,276 | 277,641 |
| Egypt | 9 | 1:10,215,084 | 48,153 |
| Indonesia | 8 | 1:16,531,149 | 488,268 |
| Niger | 5 | 1:3,838,403 | 64,195 |
| United Arab Emirates | 4 | 1:2,290,568 | 60,372 |
| Germany | 2 | 1:40,252,730 | 481,636 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1:23,089,950 | 83,168 |
| Latvia | 2 | 1:1,025,023 | 41,546 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Benin | 2 | 1:5,167,801 | 84,334 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Slovakia | 1 | 1:5,336,450 | 140,422 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
Zomba (380) may also be a first name.
Zomba Demographics
Average Zomba Salary in
South Africa
R 112,728
Per year
Average Salary in
South Africa
R 237,638
Per year
Zomba Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Zomba Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Zomba (Russian: Зомба, Tibetan: འཛོམས་བྷ།) is more commonly found in Malawi than any other country/territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Zomba? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 87,277th most widely held last name worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 1,322,124 people. The surname Zomba is predominantly found in Africa, where 90 percent of Zomba are found; 53 percent are found in Southern Africa and 53 percent are found in South Bantu Africa. Zomba is also the 444,827th most widely held first name worldwide, held by 380 people.
This surname is most widely held in Malawi, where it is held by 2,117 people, or 1 in 8,086. Aside from Malawi it occurs in 33 countries. It is also common in The DR Congo, where 33 percent reside and South Africa, where 7 percent reside.
Zomba Last Name Statistics demography
Zomba earn less than half the average income. In South Africa they earn 52.56% less than the national average, earning R 112,728 per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Zomba Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Zomba in the Tibetan language | ||
| འཛོམས་བྷ། | dzombha | 28.57 |
| འཛོམས་བཱ། | dzomba | 24.68 |
| འཛོམས་བ། | dzomwa | 24.03 |
| འཛོམས་བྷ་ | dzombha | 5.19 |
| འཛོམས་བ་ | dzomwa | 5.19 |
| འཛོམས་པ། | dzompa | 4.55 |
| འཛོམས་པ་ | dzompa | 3.25 |
| འཛོམས་བཱ་ | dzomba | 1.3 |
| འཛོམས་་པ་ | dzompa | 0.65 |
| འཛོམས་ | dzom | 0.65 |
| འཛོམས་བྷ | dzombha | 0.65 |
| འཛོམས་བ | dzomwa | 0.65 |
| འཛོམས་སྦ། | dzomba | 0.65 |
| Zomba in the Russian language | ||
| Зомба | zomba | - |
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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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- 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 Zomba
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