Chaunga Surname
Approximately 611 people bear this surname
Chaunga Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 392 | 1:43,671 | 6,239 |
| Tanzania | 102 | 1:519,035 | 34,109 |
| Zambia | 82 | 1:193,292 | 12,826 |
| Zimbabwe | 33 | 1:467,825 | 39,606 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1:23,089,950 | 83,168 |
Chaunga (22) may also be a first name.
Chaunga Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chaunga Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Chaunga is found most frequently in Malawi. It can also be found as a variant:. For other possible spellings of Chaunga click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Chaunga? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 529,538th most frequently held surname throughout the world It is held by around 1 in 11,927,244 people. It is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Chaunga live; 83 percent live in Southern Africa and 83 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 2,301,746th most commonly held first name internationally, held by 22 people.
The surname Chaunga is most frequent in Malawi, where it is carried by 392 people, or 1 in 43,671. Apart from Malawi this surname is found in 4 countries. It is also found in Tanzania, where 17 percent are found and Zambia, where 13 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 Chaunga
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