Chekete Surname
Approximately 255 people bear this surname
Chekete Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zimbabwe | 130 | 1:118,756 | 16,091 |
| Benin | 115 | 1:89,875 | 10,445 |
| Canada | 5 | 1:7,369,118 | 289,406 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
The alternate forms: Chékété (1) are calculated separately.
Chekete (19) may also be a first name.
Chekete Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chekete Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Chekete is carried by more people in Zimbabwe than any other country/territory. It may also occur as: Chékété. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Chekete? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,001,271st most commonly used surname on earth. It is borne by approximately 1 in 28,578,611 people. It occurs predominantly in Africa, where 97 percent of Chekete live; 51 percent live in Southern Africa and 51 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 2,523,061st most frequent first name on earth It is held by 19 people.
The last name Chekete is most commonly used in Zimbabwe, where it is held by 130 people, or 1 in 118,756. In Zimbabwe Chekete is mostly found in: Mashonaland West Province, where 37 percent live, Manicaland Province, where 35 percent live and Mashonaland East Province, where 25 percent live. Apart from Zimbabwe this last name occurs in 6 countries. It is also common in Benin, where 45 percent live and Canada, where 2 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
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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 Chekete
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