Chibwowa Surname
Approximately 136 people bear this surname
Chibwowa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zimbabwe | 134 | 1:115,211 | 15,687 |
| Sierra Leone | 1 | 1:7,089,631 | 1,533 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Chibwowa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chibwowa Come From? nationality or country of origin
Chibwowa is held by more people in Zimbabwe than any other country or territory. It may occur in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Chibwowa? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,527,735th most widely held family name throughout the world. It is borne by around 1 in 53,584,896 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Chibwowa live; 99 percent live in Southern Africa and 99 percent live in South Bantu Africa.
The last name Chibwowa is most frequent in Zimbabwe, where it is held by 134 people, or 1 in 115,211. In Zimbabwe Chibwowa is most frequent in: Masvingo Province, where 61 percent live, Bulawayo Province, where 19 percent live and Manicaland Province, where 7 percent live. Barring Zimbabwe Chibwowa is found in 2 countries. It is also found in Sierra Leone, where 1 percent live and The United States, where 1 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 Chibwowa
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