Chenga Surname
Approximately 5,080 people bear this surname
Chenga Surname Definition:
Chenga is a surname of the Bemba tribe, meaning: a child whose arrival has fallen short of expectations.
Chenga Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 2,590 | 1:20,441 | 2,577 |
| Zambia | 1,625 | 1:9,754 | 1,139 |
| India | 452 | 1:1,697,047 | 61,414 |
| Zimbabwe | 200 | 1:77,191 | 11,358 |
| DR Congo | 75 | 1:985,061 | 64,020 |
| Thailand | 56 | 1:1,261,399 | 181,528 |
| Cameroon | 19 | 1:1,093,109 | 67,608 |
| England | 12 | 1:4,643,172 | 139,951 |
| South Africa | 12 | 1:4,514,809 | 137,638 |
| Kenya | 11 | 1:4,198,173 | 41,178 |
| United States | 9 | 1:40,273,215 | 872,126 |
| Pakistan | 5 | 1:35,728,777 | 102,388 |
| Mozambique | 1 | 1:27,261,569 | 7,432 |
| South Sudan | 1 | 1:11,415,076 | 3,182 |
| Somalia | 1 | 1:13,452,061 | 9,224 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Mauritius | 1 | 1:1,293,417 | 16,552 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Honduras | 1 | 1:8,816,442 | 9,272 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Bhutan | 1 | 1:616,039 | 1,715 |
Chenga (1,791) may also be a first name.
Chenga Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
Chenga is a surname of the Bemba tribe, meaning: a child whose arrival has fallen short of expectations.
Chenga Demographics
Chenga Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Chenga Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chenga Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Chenga (Hindi: चेन्गा, Oriya: େଚଂଗ, Tibetan: བཅོ་ལྔ་) is more commonly found in Tanzania than any other country or territory. It can appear as:. For other possible spellings of Chenga click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Chenga? popularity and diffusion
It is the 93,842nd most widely held last name throughout the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 1,434,556 people. Chenga is mostly found in Africa, where 89 percent of Chenga live; 51 percent live in East Africa and 51 percent live in East Bantu Africa. It is also the 180,706th most commonly occurring first name world-wide, borne by 1,791 people.
This last name is most commonly held in Tanzania, where it is held by 2,590 people, or 1 in 20,441. In Tanzania it is most numerous in: Rukwa Region, where 19 percent live, Mtwara Region, where 13 percent live and Ruvuma Region, where 12 percent live. Barring Tanzania this surname is found in 25 countries. It also occurs in Zambia, where 32 percent live and India, where 9 percent live.
Chenga Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those holding the Chenga surname is predominantly Christian (100%) in Kenya.
Chenga earn less than half the average income. In South Africa they earn 84.27% less than the national average, earning R 37,380 per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Chenga Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Chenga in the Hindi language | ||
| चेन्गा | cen'ga | - |
| Chenga in the Oriya language | ||
| େଚଂଗ | ecanga | - |
| Chenga in the Tibetan language | ||
| བཅོ་ལྔ་ | chonga | 62.15 |
| བཅོ་ལྔ། | chonga | 10.28 |
| བལྕོ་ལྔ་ | bachonga | 5.61 |
| ལྕོ་ལྔ་ | chonga | 3.74 |
| བཅོ་ལྔ | chonga | 1.4 |
| བཙོ་ལྔ་ | tsonga | 0.93 |
| ལྕ་ལྔ་ | changa | 0.93 |
| བཅོང་ངག་ | chongngak | 0.93 |
| བཅོས་ལྔ་ | chönga | 0.47 |
| བལྕོ་ལྔ། | bachonga | 0.47 |
| ལྕེ་དགའ་ | chéga | 0.47 |
| ཆོས་རྔ་ | chönga | 0.47 |
| བཅོ་སྔ་ | chonga | 0.47 |
| བཙོན་དགའ་ | tsönga | 0.47 |
| རྩེད་ལྔ་ | tsénga | 0.47 |
| བཅོང་སྔ་ | chongnga | 0.47 |
| བལྕོ་ལྔ་། | bachonga | 0.47 |
| ལྕང་དགའ་ | changga | 0.47 |
| ཅོང་སྔ་ | chongnga | 0.47 |
| བཅོ་ལྕ་ | chocha | 0.47 |
| བོཅ་ལྔ་ | bochanga | 0.47 |
| བཅེང་དགའ་ | chengga | 0.47 |
| བཅོང་ངག། | chongngak | 0.47 |
| ཅོང་ངག་ | chongngak | 0.47 |
| བཙེ་ལྔ་ | tsénga | 0.47 |
| བལྕོ་སྔགས | bachongak | 0.47 |
| ལྕོང་ལྔ་ | chongnga | 0.47 |
| བཅེ་ལྔ་ | chénga | 0.47 |
| བལྕ་ལྔ་ | bachanga | 0.47 |
| ལྕ་དགའ། | chaga | 0.47 |
| ཅོ་ལྔ་ | chonga | 0.47 |
| བཅོ་ལྔ་། | chonga | 0.47 |
| བཙན་དགའ་ | tsenga | 0.47 |
| བལྕོ་སྔ་ | bachonga | 0.47 |
| བཅུ་ལྔ་ | chunga | 0.47 |
| བཅོ་སྔ། | chonga | 0.47 |
| བརྕོ་ལྔ། | barchonga | 0.47 |
| ལྕ་དགའ་ | chaga | 0.47 |
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