Chihande Surname
Approximately 439 people bear this surname
Chihande Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 240 | 1:220,590 | 18,364 |
| Zambia | 131 | 1:120,992 | 9,219 |
| Zimbabwe | 65 | 1:237,511 | 26,018 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Chihande Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chihande Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Chihande is carried by more people in Tanzania than any other country/territory. It may occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of Chihande.
How Common Is The Last Name Chihande? popularity and diffusion
It is the 678,631st most commonly occurring family name world-wide, borne by approximately 1 in 16,600,332 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Chihande live; 55 percent live in East Africa and 55 percent live in East Bantu Africa.
Chihande is most common in Tanzania, where it is borne by 240 people, or 1 in 220,590. In Tanzania it is primarily concentrated in: Dodoma Region, where 98 percent live, Iringa Region, where 2 percent live and Dar es Salaam Region, where 0 percent live. Besides Tanzania Chihande exists in 5 countries. It is also found in Zambia, where 30 percent live and Zimbabwe, where 15 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 Chihande
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