Chegang Surname
Approximately 188 people bear this surname
Chegang Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 185 | 1:112,265 | 13,040 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
Chegang Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chegang Come From? nationality or country of origin
Chegang is most common in Cameroon. It may also be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Chegang? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,235,409th most frequently used family name internationally It is held by around 1 in 38,763,542 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Chegang live; 98 percent live in Central Africa and 97 percent live in Central Bantu Africa.
It is most frequently used in Cameroon, where it is borne by 185 people, or 1 in 112,265. In Cameroon Chegang is most numerous in: Centre Region, where 52 percent live, West Region, where 24 percent live and Littoral Region, where 19 percent live. Excluding Cameroon it occurs in 2 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 1 percent live and Gabon, where 1 percent live.
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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 Chegang
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