Cheleget Surname

1,849,867th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 100 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Kenya
Highest density in:
Kenya

Cheleget Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Cheleget Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Kenya981:471,22324,622
Uganda21:19,519,640189,114

Cheleget Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Cheleget Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Cheleget is most common in Kenya. It may appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Cheleget? popularity and diffusion

Cheleget is the 1,849,867th most frequently occurring surname globally It is held by approximately 1 in 72,875,459 people. The last name Cheleget is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Cheleget are found; 100 percent are found in East Africa and 100 percent are found in East Bantu Africa.

The last name Cheleget is most commonly used in Kenya, where it is held by 98 people, or 1 in 471,223. In Kenya it is most prevalent in: Trans Nzoia County, where 99 percent live and Kiambu County, where 1 percent live. Aside from Kenya this last name is found in one country. It also occurs in Uganda, where 2 percent live.

Cheleget Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those carrying the Cheleget surname is predominantly Christian (100%) in Kenya.

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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 Cheleget
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