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 last name Chiga (Hindi: चिगा, Marathi: चीगा, Oriya: ଚିଗା, Russian: Чига, Tibetan: ཆི་ག་) occurs in Algeria more than any other country or territory. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Chiga? popularity and diffusion
The last name Chiga is the 373,745th most commonly used surname globally It is held by approximately 1 in 7,599,109 people. Chiga occurs predominantly in Africa, where 70 percent of Chiga live; 32 percent live in North Africa and 32 percent live in Mahgreb. Chiga is also the 369,527th most commonly used given name on earth, held by 522 people.
It is most widely held in Algeria, where it is borne by 304 people, or 1 in 127,077. In Algeria it is most frequent in: Batna Province, where 100 percent are found. Not including Algeria this last name is found in 27 countries. It is also common in Nigeria, where 12 percent are found and Italy, where 12 percent are found.
Chiga Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those carrying the last name is primarily 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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