Chaponga Surname
Approximately 536 people bear this surname
Chaponga Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 523 | 1:32,733 | 4,882 |
| Tanzania | 6 | 1:8,823,602 | 72,091 |
| Zambia | 4 | 1:3,962,480 | 38,524 |
| Zimbabwe | 3 | 1:5,146,080 | 115,446 |
Chaponga Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chaponga Come From? nationality or country of origin
Chaponga occurs most in Malawi. It may also appear as:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Chaponga? popularity and diffusion
Chaponga is the 584,278th most numerous surname on a worldwide basis It is held by around 1 in 13,596,168 people. The last name is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Chaponga reside; 99 percent reside in Southern Africa and 99 percent reside in South Bantu Africa.
This last name is most numerous in Malawi, where it is held by 523 people, or 1 in 32,733. Outside of Malawi this last name is found in 3 countries. It is also found in Tanzania, where 1 percent are found and Zambia, 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
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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 Chaponga
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