Chaswe Surname
Approximately 545 people bear this surname
Chaswe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zambia | 540 | 1:29,352 | 3,037 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Chaswe (21) may also be a first name.
Chaswe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chaswe Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Chaswe is found most in Zambia. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Chaswe? popularity and diffusion
The last name Chaswe is the 576,965th most widely held surname on a worldwide basis It is held by around 1 in 13,371,644 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Chaswe live; 99 percent live in Southern Africa and 99 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 2,368,944th most common forename in the world. It is borne by 21 people.
The last name is most frequently used in Zambia, where it is borne by 540 people, or 1 in 29,352. In Zambia Chaswe is primarily found in: Luapula Province, where 56 percent are found, Copperbelt Province, where 22 percent are found and Lusaka Province, where 17 percent are found. Not including Zambia this last name exists in 2 countries. It is also found in The DR Congo, where 1 percent are found and South Africa, where 0 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 Chaswe
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