Chiheya Surname
Approximately 484 people bear this surname
Chiheya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zimbabwe | 483 | 1:31,963 | 4,942 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Chiheya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chiheya Come From? nationality or country of origin
Chiheya is most common in Zimbabwe. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Chiheya? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 631,297th most commonly used last name worldwide, held by approximately 1 in 15,056,913 people. Chiheya is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Chiheya live; 100 percent live in Southern Africa and 100 percent live in South Bantu Africa.
The surname is most commonly occurring in Zimbabwe, where it is held by 483 people, or 1 in 31,963. In Zimbabwe Chiheya is primarily concentrated in: Midlands Province, where 43 percent live, Masvingo Province, where 27 percent live and Harare Province, where 13 percent live. Besides Zimbabwe this last name is found in one country. It is also found in 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 Chiheya
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