Chaapa Surname
Approximately 369 people bear this surname
Chaapa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zambia | 245 | 1:64,694 | 5,750 |
| India | 121 | 1:6,339,383 | 145,676 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
Chaapa (39) may also be a first name.
Chaapa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chaapa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Chaapa has its highest incidence in Zambia. It may be rendered as:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Chaapa? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 770,644th most frequent surname on earth, held by approximately 1 in 19,749,447 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 67 percent of Chaapa live; 66 percent live in Southern Africa and 66 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,637,361st most frequently held forename worldwide, borne by 39 people.
It is most frequently occurring in Zambia, where it is carried by 245 people, or 1 in 64,694. In Zambia Chaapa is most common in: Central Province, where 62 percent live, Southern Province, where 20 percent live and Lusaka Province, where 16 percent live. Barring Zambia this last name exists in 3 countries. It is also found in India, where 33 percent live and Uganda, where 1 percent live.
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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 Chaapa
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