Chigwendere Surname
Approximately 600 people bear this surname
Chigwendere Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zimbabwe | 585 | 1:26,390 | 4,053 |
| South Africa | 13 | 1:4,167,516 | 132,322 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
Chigwendere Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chigwendere Come From? nationality or country of origin
Chigwendere is found most in Zimbabwe. It may occur as:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Chigwendere? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 536,820th most widely held last name on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 12,145,910 people. The surname is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Chigwendere reside; 100 percent reside in Southern Africa and 100 percent reside in South Bantu Africa.
Chigwendere is most common in Zimbabwe, where it is held by 585 people, or 1 in 26,390. In Zimbabwe it is mostly found in: Midlands Province, where 43 percent live, Mashonaland West Province, where 18 percent live and Harare Province, where 9 percent live. Excluding Zimbabwe this last name occurs in 2 countries. It is also found in South Africa, where 2 percent live and England, where 0 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chingwendere | 96 | 43 | / |
| Chigwendera | 91 | 2 | / |
| Chikwendere | 91 | 2 | / |
| Sigwendere | 86 | 1 | / |
| Chigwindire | 82 | 1 | / |
| Kicwendere | 76 | 1 | / |
| Chigwindiri | 73 | 81 | / |
| Chikwindire | 73 | 4 | / |
| Keicwendere | 73 | 1 | / |
| Kekwendere | 67 | 1 | / |
| Gikwenderi | 67 | 1 | / |
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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 Chigwendere
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