Chakanga Surname
Approximately 1,521 people bear this surname
Chakanga Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 1,072 | 1:15,969 | 2,510 |
| Zambia | 252 | 1:62,897 | 5,622 |
| Zimbabwe | 185 | 1:83,450 | 12,162 |
| Tanzania | 9 | 1:5,882,401 | 60,754 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Mozambique | 1 | 1:27,261,569 | 7,432 |
| Namibia | 1 | 1:2,409,401 | 19,676 |
Chakanga (22) may also be a first name.
Chakanga Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chakanga Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Chakanga has its highest incidence in Malawi. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Chakanga? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 258,654th most commonly used surname on earth, held by approximately 1 in 4,791,286 people. This surname is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Chakanga live; 99 percent live in Southern Africa and 99 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 2,301,746th most frequently used first name in the world It is held by 22 people.
It is most frequently used in Malawi, where it is borne by 1,072 people, or 1 in 15,969. Beside Malawi it occurs in 6 countries. It is also common in Zambia, where 17 percent live and Zimbabwe, where 12 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 Chakanga
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