Chesami Surname
Approximately 187 people bear this surname
Chesami Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 135 | 1:153,845 | 16,852 |
| Uganda | 45 | 1:867,540 | 39,905 |
| Kenya | 4 | 1:11,544,975 | 62,419 |
| Mauritius | 1 | 1:1,293,417 | 16,552 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Chesami Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chesami Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Chesami (Bengali: চেসমী) is more commonly found in Cameroon than any other country/territory. It can occur as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Chesami? popularity and diffusion
The surname Chesami is the 1,239,697th most frequently held last name world-wide, borne by approximately 1 in 38,970,834 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Chesami reside; 72 percent reside in Central Africa and 72 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa.
The surname is most frequently used in Cameroon, where it is held by 135 people, or 1 in 153,845. In Cameroon Chesami is most common in: Northwest Region, where 40 percent live, Southwest Region, where 27 percent live and Centre Region, where 18 percent live. Excluding Cameroon this last name occurs in 5 countries. It is also common in Uganda, where 24 percent live and Kenya, where 2 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Chesami Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Chesami in the Bengali language | ||
| চেসমী | cesami | - |
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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
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- 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 Chesami
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