Chatawa Surname
Approximately 203 people bear this surname
Chatawa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 157 | 1:109,039 | 12,664 |
| Zimbabwe | 25 | 1:617,530 | 46,943 |
| England | 16 | 1:3,482,379 | 114,324 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Zambia | 1 | 1:15,849,922 | 53,989 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 7 | 1:7,174,098 | 302,835 |
Chatawa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chatawa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Chatawa occurs more in Malawi more than any other country/territory. It may also occur as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of Chatawa.
How Common Is The Last Name Chatawa? popularity and diffusion
Chatawa is the 1,173,425th most commonly held last name internationally It is held by approximately 1 in 35,899,241 people. Chatawa occurs mostly in Africa, where 90 percent of Chatawa live; 90 percent live in Southern Africa and 90 percent live in South Bantu Africa.
This last name is most widely held in Malawi, where it is borne by 157 people, or 1 in 109,039. Excluding Malawi this surname occurs in 4 countries. It is also found in Zimbabwe, where 12 percent reside and England, where 8 percent reside.
Chatawa Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Chatawa has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Chatawa last name declined 43 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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 Chatawa
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