Chigava Surname
Approximately 242 people bear this surname
Chigava Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zimbabwe | 236 | 1:65,416 | 9,847 |
| Tanzania | 5 | 1:10,588,323 | 75,430 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Chigava Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chigava Come From? nationality or country of origin
Chigava is found in Zimbabwe more than any other country or territory. It may also be rendered as:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Chigava? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,038,570th most commonly held family name world-wide, borne by approximately 1 in 30,113,826 people. Chigava is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Chigava live; 98 percent live in Southern Africa and 98 percent live in South Bantu Africa.
The surname is most widely held in Zimbabwe, where it is borne by 236 people, or 1 in 65,416. In Zimbabwe it is most numerous in: Masvingo Province, where 36 percent live, Midlands Province, where 32 percent live and Manicaland Province, where 10 percent live. Apart from Zimbabwe this last name is found in 2 countries. It is also common in Tanzania, where 2 percent live and South Africa, where 0 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 Chigava
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