Chigwere Surname
Approximately 1,098 people bear this surname
Chigwere Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 732 | 1:23,387 | 3,582 |
| Zimbabwe | 349 | 1:44,236 | 6,805 |
| United States | 10 | 1:36,245,893 | 832,629 |
| Zambia | 6 | 1:2,641,654 | 34,188 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
Chigwere (14) may also be a first name.
Chigwere Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chigwere Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Chigwere has its highest incidence in Malawi. It can be rendered as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Chigwere? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 335,833rd most widely held last name world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 6,637,109 people. Chigwere is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Chigwere reside; 99 percent reside in Southern Africa and 99 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. Chigwere is also the 3,024,661st most frequently occurring first name internationally, borne by 14 people.
This last name is most commonly used in Malawi, where it is borne by 732 people, or 1 in 23,387. Without taking into account Malawi this last name is found in 4 countries. It is also common in Zimbabwe, where 32 percent reside and The United States, where 1 percent reside.
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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 Chigwere
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