Chestit Surname
Approximately 8 people bear this surname
Chestit Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenya | 7 | 1:6,597,129 | 51,431 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
Chestit Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chestit Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Chestit is more frequently found in Kenya than any other country or territory. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Chestit? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 6,723,624th most commonly held family name on a worldwide basis, held by around 1 in 910,943,240 people. Chestit occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Chestit live; 100 percent live in East Africa and 88 percent live in East Bantu Africa.
The surname is most frequently held in Kenya, where it is carried by 7 people, or 1 in 6,597,129. In Kenya Chestit is most prevalent in: Bungoma County, where 57 percent live, Kakamega County, where 14 percent live and Taita Taveta County, where 14 percent live. Not including Kenya it is found in one country. It is also found in Uganda, where 13 percent live.
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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 Chestit
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