Chelula Surname
Approximately 467 people bear this surname
Chelula Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 455 | 1:116,355 | 11,135 |
| Zambia | 8 | 1:1,981,240 | 32,669 |
| India | 4 | 1:191,766,346 | 1,073,940 |
Chelula Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chelula Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Chelula is more commonly found in Tanzania than any other country/territory. It may be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Chelula? popularity and diffusion
Chelula is the 648,005th most frequently held last name world-wide, borne by around 1 in 15,605,023 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Chelula live; 97 percent live in East Africa and 97 percent live in East Bantu Africa.
The last name is most frequently held in Tanzania, where it is held by 455 people, or 1 in 116,355. In Tanzania Chelula is most frequent in: Njombe Region, where 42 percent reside, Iringa Region, where 29 percent reside and Dar es Salaam Region, where 24 percent reside. Beside Tanzania this last name exists in 2 countries. It is also common in Zambia, where 2 percent reside and India, where 1 percent reside.
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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 Chelula
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