Chalinga Surname
Approximately 494 people bear this surname
Chalinga Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zambia | 470 | 1:33,723 | 3,420 |
| Kenya | 12 | 1:3,848,325 | 40,366 |
| Malawi | 4 | 1:4,279,777 | 24,060 |
| Zimbabwe | 4 | 1:3,859,560 | 114,807 |
| Tanzania | 2 | 1:26,470,806 | 111,653 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Botswana | 1 | 1:2,186,929 | 30,250 |
Chalinga (11) may also be a first name.
Chalinga Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chalinga Come From? nationality or country of origin
Chalinga has its highest incidence in Zambia. It can also be rendered as a variant:. Click here for other possible spellings of Chalinga.
How Common Is The Last Name Chalinga? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 621,618th most numerous surname worldwide, held by approximately 1 in 14,752,117 people. The surname Chalinga is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Chalinga live; 97 percent live in Southern Africa and 97 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 3,487,849th most frequently held first name throughout the world It is held by 11 people.
Chalinga is most frequent in Zambia, where it is borne by 470 people, or 1 in 33,723. In Zambia Chalinga is mostly concentrated in: Southern Province, where 82 percent are found, Lusaka Province, where 11 percent are found and Copperbelt Province, where 6 percent are found. Apart from Zambia this last name exists in 6 countries. It is also found in Kenya, where 2 percent are found and Malawi, where 1 percent are found.
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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 Chalinga
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