Chigono Surname
Approximately 263 people bear this surname
Chigono Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 183 | 1:93,547 | 11,397 |
| Zimbabwe | 77 | 1:200,497 | 23,224 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
Chigono Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chigono Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Chigono is found most frequently in Malawi. It may appear as:. Click here for other potential spellings of Chigono.
How Common Is The Last Name Chigono? popularity and diffusion
The surname Chigono is the 980,795th most frequently held family name globally. It is borne by around 1 in 27,709,300 people. The surname Chigono occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Chigono reside; 100 percent reside in Southern Africa and 100 percent reside in South Bantu Africa.
The last name is most common in Malawi, where it is carried by 183 people, or 1 in 93,547. Outside of Malawi this last name occurs in 3 countries. It also occurs in Zimbabwe, where 29 percent are found and South Africa, where 1 percent are found.
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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 Chigono
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