Chanfon Surname

4,206,983rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 22 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Switzerland
Highest density in:
Switzerland

Chanfon Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Chanfon Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Switzerland121:684,41046,196
Mexico91:13,791,80145,470
Thailand11:70,638,3451,175,915

The alternate forms: Chanfón (1) are calculated separately.

Chanfon Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Chanfon Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Chanfon is held by more people in Switzerland than any other country or territory. It may also appear in the variant forms: Chanfón. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Chanfon? popularity and diffusion

The surname Chanfon is the 4,206,983rd most frequently used last name on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 331,252,087 people. The surname Chanfon is primarily found in Europe, where 55 percent of Chanfon reside; 55 percent reside in Western Europe and 55 percent reside in Germanic Europe.

The last name Chanfon is most frequently held in Switzerland, where it is borne by 12 people, or 1 in 684,410. In Switzerland Chanfon is primarily concentrated in: Canton of Aargau, where 92 percent are found and Canton of Bern, where 8 percent are found. Besides Switzerland this surname occurs in 2 countries. It is also found in Mexico, where 41 percent are found and Thailand, where 5 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
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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 Chanfon
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