Chera Surname
Approximately 4,978 people bear this surname
Chera Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 2,095 | 1:366,141 | 19,801 |
| Romania | 1,429 | 1:14,050 | 1,805 |
| Zimbabwe | 409 | 1:37,746 | 5,854 |
| United States | 333 | 1:1,088,465 | 79,042 |
| England | 153 | 1:364,170 | 25,923 |
| Canada | 114 | 1:323,207 | 29,592 |
| Argentina | 70 | 1:610,620 | 43,172 |
| Paraguay | 57 | 1:126,960 | 2,773 |
| Kuwait | 39 | 1:97,454 | 10,676 |
| Brazil | 33 | 1:6,487,101 | 155,169 |
| Pakistan | 26 | 1:6,870,919 | 39,117 |
| Greece | 26 | 1:426,146 | 56,152 |
| Russia | 24 | 1:6,005,127 | 248,576 |
| Panama | 23 | 1:170,098 | 5,250 |
| Algeria | 16 | 1:2,414,472 | 44,357 |
| Mauritania | 15 | 1:272,991 | 12,403 |
| Kenya | 15 | 1:3,078,660 | 38,128 |
| Papua New Guinea | 10 | 1:815,372 | 88,623 |
| South Africa | 10 | 1:5,417,770 | 150,016 |
| Malawi | 9 | 1:1,902,123 | 19,532 |
| Wales | 7 | 1:442,076 | 21,198 |
| Tanzania | 6 | 1:8,823,602 | 72,091 |
| Iran | 6 | 1:12,797,087 | 199,837 |
| Ukraine | 5 | 1:9,104,539 | 300,808 |
| Italy | 4 | 1:15,289,172 | 132,955 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| Ethiopia | 4 | 1:24,386,566 | 19,165 |
| Peru | 3 | 1:10,594,708 | 45,902 |
| Australia | 3 | 1:8,998,567 | 200,784 |
| Belarus | 3 | 1:3,167,020 | 121,664 |
| France | 3 | 1:22,140,907 | 385,998 |
| Moldova | 3 | 1:1,187,123 | 48,973 |
| Afghanistan | 2 | 1:16,076,592 | 43,178 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| Spain | 2 | 1:23,376,018 | 128,922 |
| Haiti | 2 | 1:5,341,954 | 21,336 |
| South Sudan | 1 | 1:11,415,076 | 3,182 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Dominican Republic | 1 | 1:10,432,932 | 36,508 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 6 | 1:8,369,781 | 355,680 |
The alternate forms: Chéra (1) are calculated separately.
Chera (2,359) may also be a first name.
Chera Demographics
Chera Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Chera Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chera Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Chera (Bengali: চেরা, Georgian: ჩერა, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺷﺮﺍ, Hindi: चेरा, Marathi: चेरा, Oriya: େଚର, Russian: Чера) has its highest incidence in India. It may also be rendered as a variant: Chéra. Click here for further potential spellings of Chera.
How Common Is The Last Name Chera? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 95,573rd most frequently used family name throughout the world It is held by around 1 in 1,463,951 people. The surname Chera occurs mostly in Asia, where 44 percent of Chera live; 43 percent live in South Asia and 42 percent live in Indo-South Asia. Chera is also the 153,052nd most frequently occurring forename at a global level It is held by 2,359 people.
Chera is most frequently occurring in India, where it is held by 2,095 people, or 1 in 366,141. In India it is most frequent in: Arunachal Pradesh, where 57 percent live, Gujarat, where 31 percent live and Andhra Pradesh, where 2 percent live. Other than India Chera occurs in 48 countries. It also occurs in Romania, where 29 percent live and Zimbabwe, where 8 percent live.
Chera Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Chera has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Chera surname grew 5,550 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Chera Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the surname is primarily Christian (100%) in Kenya.
In The United States those bearing the Chera last name are 27.82% more likely to be registered Democrats than The US average, with 81.05% being registered with the political party.
The amount Chera earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 46.82% less than the national average, earning R 126,372 per year; in United States they earn 39.1% more than the national average, earning $60,021 USD per year and in Canada they earn 15.01% more than the national average, earning $57,142 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Chera Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Chera in the Georgian language | ||
| ჩერა | chera | - |
| Chera in the Bengali language | ||
| চেরা | cera | - |
| Chera in the Hindi language | ||
| चेरा | cera | - |
| Chera in the Marathi language | ||
| चेरा | cera | - |
| Chera in the Oriya language | ||
| େଚର | ecara | 86.59 |
| େଚରା | ecara | 10.98 |
| ରଣା | rana | 2.44 |
| Chera in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺷﺮﺍ | shra | 75 |
| ﺷﺮﻩ | shrh | 25 |
| Chera in the Russian language | ||
| Чера | cera | - |
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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 Chera
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