Chalema Surname
Approximately 1,402 people bear this surname
Chalema Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 915 | 1:18,709 | 2,930 |
| Tanzania | 312 | 1:169,685 | 14,915 |
| Zambia | 164 | 1:96,646 | 7,818 |
| Zimbabwe | 7 | 1:2,205,463 | 97,905 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Botswana | 1 | 1:2,186,929 | 30,250 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Chalema (450) may also be a first name.
Chalema Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chalema Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Chalema (Bengali: ছালেমা) is most common in Malawi. It can be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Chalema? popularity and diffusion
Chalema is the 276,555th most frequently used last name in the world It is held by around 1 in 5,197,964 people. The surname Chalema occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Chalema are found; 78 percent are found in Southern Africa and 78 percent are found in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 403,380th most prevalent first name worldwide It is held by 450 people.
Chalema is most commonly held in Malawi, where it is carried by 915 people, or 1 in 18,709. Beside Malawi this surname exists in 7 countries. It is also common in Tanzania, where 22 percent are found and Zambia, where 12 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Chalema Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Chalema in the Bengali language | ||
| ছালেমা | chalema | 78.72 |
| ছলেমা | chalema | 10.64 |
| ছালমা | chalama | 6.38 |
| চালেমা | calema | 2.13 |
| চলেমা | calema | 2.13 |
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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 Chalema
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