Chiga Surname
Approximately 959 people bear this surname
Chiga Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Algeria | 304 | 1:127,077 | 17,529 |
| Nigeria | 115 | 1:1,540,372 | 58,295 |
| Italy | 114 | 1:536,462 | 52,562 |
| Tanzania | 82 | 1:645,629 | 38,896 |
| Zimbabwe | 73 | 1:211,483 | 24,106 |
| Brazil | 40 | 1:5,351,858 | 134,966 |
| South Africa | 40 | 1:1,354,443 | 73,245 |
| Russia | 29 | 1:4,969,761 | 222,297 |
| India | 25 | 1:30,682,615 | 377,978 |
| Niger | 23 | 1:834,436 | 19,133 |
| Cameroon | 18 | 1:1,153,837 | 70,128 |
| France | 15 | 1:4,428,181 | 244,602 |
| Japan | 14 | 1:9,131,735 | 44,780 |
| Belarus | 13 | 1:730,851 | 59,297 |
| United States | 11 | 1:32,950,812 | 797,015 |
| Canada | 9 | 1:4,093,955 | 205,175 |
| Switzerland | 6 | 1:1,368,819 | 77,571 |
| Benin | 6 | 1:1,722,600 | 61,769 |
| Ghana | 4 | 1:6,755,173 | 15,406 |
| England | 4 | 1:13,929,515 | 290,718 |
| Tunisia | 4 | 1:152,656 | 17,743 |
| Kazakhstan | 2 | 1:8,841,248 | 174,813 |
| Malaysia | 2 | 1:14,747,112 | 316,340 |
| Thailand | 2 | 1:35,319,172 | 966,191 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Georgia | 1 | 1:3,745,545 | 47,852 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
Chiga (522) may also be a first name.
Chiga Demographics
Average Chiga Salary in
United States
$55,000 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Chiga Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chiga Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Chiga (Hindi: चिगा, Marathi: चीगा, Oriya: ଚିଗା, Russian: Чига, Tibetan: ཆི་ག་) is held by more people in Algeria than any other country or territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Chiga? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 373,745th most numerous surname globally, borne by approximately 1 in 7,599,109 people. The last name Chiga is mostly found in Africa, where 70 percent of Chiga live; 32 percent live in North Africa and 32 percent live in Mahgreb. It is also the 369,527th most widely held first name internationally, held by 522 people.
The surname Chiga is most common in Algeria, where it is carried by 304 people, or 1 in 127,077. In Algeria Chiga is most frequent in: Batna Province, where 100 percent live. Other than Algeria this last name is found in 27 countries. It also occurs in Nigeria, where 12 percent live and Italy, where 12 percent live.
Chiga Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those carrying the last name is principally Orthodox (75%) in Russia.
The amount Chiga earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 60.23% less than the national average, earning R 94,512 per year; in United States they earn 27.47% more than the national average, earning $55,000 USD per year and in Canada they earn 3.89% more than the national average, earning $51,616 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Chiga Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Chiga in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཆི་ག་ | chiga | - |
| Chiga in the Oriya language | ||
| ଚିଗା | ciga | - |
| Chiga in the Marathi language | ||
| चीगा | ciga | - |
| Chiga in the Hindi language | ||
| चिगा | ciga | 63.64 |
| चीगा | ciga | 27.27 |
| छीगा | chiga | 9.09 |
| Chiga in the Russian language | ||
| Чига | ciga | - |
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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 Chiga
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