Chewaya Surname
Approximately 206 people bear this surname
Chewaya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 183 | 1:93,547 | 11,397 |
| Zimbabwe | 21 | 1:735,154 | 52,165 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
Chewaya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chewaya Come From? nationality or country of origin
Chewaya (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻟﺸﻮﻳﺔ) is carried by more people in Malawi than any other country or territory. It may appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Chewaya? popularity and diffusion
The last name Chewaya is the 1,159,732nd most commonly used last name on earth, held by approximately 1 in 35,376,436 people. This surname is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Chewaya live; 99 percent live in Southern Africa and 99 percent live in South Bantu Africa.
The surname Chewaya is most common in Malawi, where it is carried by 183 people, or 1 in 93,547. Other than Malawi it is found in 3 countries. It is also found in Zimbabwe, where 10 percent are found and Thailand, where 0 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Chewaya Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Chewaya in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻟﺸﻮﻳﺔ | alshwyt | - |
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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 Chewaya
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