Chewaf Surname
Approximately 213 people bear this surname
Chewaf Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 212 | 1:19,315 | 1,765 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
Chewaf Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chewaf Come From? nationality or country of origin
Chewaf (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻟﺸﻮﺍﻑ) is most common in Mauritania. It may also appear as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Chewaf? popularity and diffusion
It is the 1,133,308th most frequent surname at a global level, held by around 1 in 34,213,831 people. This last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Chewaf live; 100 percent live in West Africa and 100 percent live in Senegambia Africa.
The surname Chewaf is most commonly held in Mauritania, where it is borne by 212 people, or 1 in 19,315. In Mauritania it is primarily found in: Hodh Chargui Region, where 46 percent reside, Nouakchott-Nord Region, where 16 percent reside and Assaba Region, where 10 percent reside. Beside Mauritania this last name occurs in one country. It is also common in Portugal, where 0 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Chewaf Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Chewaf in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻟﺸﻮﺍﻑ | alshwaf | 95.74 |
| ﺍﺷﻮﺍﻑ | ashwaf | 2.13 |
| ﺍﻟﺸﻮﻑ | alshwf | 2.13 |
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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 Chewaf
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