Cheleket Surname

1,907,068th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 95 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Kenya
Highest density in:
Kenya

Cheleket Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Cheleket Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Kenya941:491,27625,271
Uganda11:39,039,279258,887

Cheleket Last Name Facts

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

Cheleket is borne by more people in Kenya than any other country/territory. It may also occur as:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Cheleket? popularity and diffusion

It is the 1,907,068th most commonly held family name in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 76,711,010 people. The surname Cheleket occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Cheleket live; 100 percent live in East Africa and 100 percent live in East Bantu Africa.

The last name Cheleket is most commonly held in Kenya, where it is held by 94 people, or 1 in 491,276. In Kenya it is mostly found in: Trans Nzoia County, where 90 percent are found and Bungoma County, where 10 percent are found. Without taking into account Kenya this last name occurs in one country. It also occurs in Uganda, where 1 percent are found.

Cheleket Last Name Statistics demography

The religious adherence of those bearing the last name is primarily Christian (100%) in Kenya.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Khelekete821/
Celiket803/
Khelekethe7823/
Chalakhet715/
Chaleykit712/
Cholakit633/
Chaleckaitė631/
Chailikit59105/
Chaloykit594/
Celequitt591/
Chalaikit591/
Chollakit591/
Chailikhit56140/
Chitlikhit5664/

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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 Cheleket
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