Cheling Surname
Approximately 134 people bear this surname
Cheling Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 80 | 1:259,613 | 25,186 |
| Malaysia | 43 | 1:685,912 | 32,468 |
| England | 4 | 1:13,929,515 | 290,718 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Bhutan | 1 | 1:616,039 | 1,715 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Cheling (376) may also be a first name.
Cheling Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Cheling Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Cheling (Tibetan: ཆོས་ལིངས།) is borne by more people in Cameroon than any other country/territory. It can occur in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of Cheling.
How Common Is The Last Name Cheling? popularity and diffusion
The surname Cheling is the 1,544,715th most widely held last name globally, held by around 1 in 54,384,671 people. The surname is mostly found in Africa, where 60 percent of Cheling live; 40 percent live in West Africa and 38 percent live in Chadic Africa. Cheling is also the 447,400th most widespread first name throughout the world, borne by 376 people.
The surname Cheling is most numerous in Cameroon, where it is borne by 80 people, or 1 in 259,613. In Cameroon it is most prevalent in: Far North Region, where 65 percent are found, Northwest Region, where 31 percent are found and Littoral Region, where 1 percent are found. Without taking into account Cameroon this last name is found in 8 countries. It is also common in Malaysia, where 32 percent are found and England, where 3 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Cheling Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Cheling in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཆོས་ལིངས། | chöling | 50 |
| ཆོས་གླིང་ | chöling | 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
- 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 Cheling
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