Cheib Surname
Approximately 81 people bear this surname
Cheib Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 57 | 1:3,755,690 | 104,031 |
| Algeria | 7 | 1:5,518,793 | 51,529 |
| United States | 7 | 1:51,779,848 | 968,877 |
| Tunisia | 5 | 1:122,125 | 16,050 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 1:5,637,083 | 32,436 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
Cheib Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Cheib Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Cheib (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺷﻴﺒﻪ) is held by more people in Brazil than any other country or territory. It may be rendered as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Cheib? popularity and diffusion
The last name Cheib is the 2,091,648th most prevalent surname on earth, held by approximately 1 in 89,969,703 people. Cheib occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 79 percent of Cheib live; 70 percent live in South America and 70 percent live in Luso-South America.
The last name is most widely held in Brazil, where it is carried by 57 people, or 1 in 3,755,690. In Brazil Cheib is mostly found in: Minas Gerais, where 88 percent live, Espírito Santo, where 4 percent live and Goiás, where 2 percent live. Aside from Brazil it exists in 8 countries. It also occurs in Algeria, where 9 percent live and The United States, where 9 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Cheib Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Cheib in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺷﻴﺒﻪ | shybh | 50 |
| ﺍﺷﻴﺐ | ashyb | 50 |
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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 Cheib
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