Chamamba Surname
Approximately 50 people bear this surname
Chamamba Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zambia | 31 | 1:511,288 | 22,588 |
| Malawi | 9 | 1:1,902,123 | 19,532 |
| Tanzania | 5 | 1:10,588,323 | 75,430 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
Chamamba Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chamamba Come From? nationality or country of origin
Chamamba is most common in Zambia. It can occur in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Chamamba? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 2,746,821st most frequently used surname internationally It is held by around 1 in 145,750,918 people. This last name is mostly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Chamamba live; 80 percent live in Southern Africa and 80 percent live in South Bantu Africa.
It is most frequently held in Zambia, where it is carried by 31 people, or 1 in 511,288. In Zambia Chamamba is mostly concentrated in: Muchinga Province, where 100 percent reside. Barring Zambia this surname exists in 4 countries. It also occurs in Malawi, where 18 percent reside and Tanzania, where 10 percent reside.
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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 Chamamba
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