Chikh Surname
Approximately 21,187 people bear this surname
Chikh Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Algeria | 18,347 | 1:2,106 | 233 |
| France | 1,239 | 1:53,610 | 7,064 |
| Morocco | 750 | 1:45,968 | 7,487 |
| Saudi Arabia | 278 | 1:110,992 | 14,774 |
| Mauritania | 205 | 1:19,975 | 1,807 |
| Spain | 79 | 1:591,798 | 27,792 |
| Russia | 74 | 1:1,947,609 | 122,573 |
| Canada | 45 | 1:818,791 | 63,991 |
| Belarus | 22 | 1:431,866 | 42,756 |
| Belgium | 21 | 1:547,459 | 51,586 |
| United States | 18 | 1:20,136,607 | 622,629 |
| Tunisia | 17 | 1:35,919 | 5,218 |
| Germany | 15 | 1:5,367,031 | 196,901 |
| England | 10 | 1:5,571,806 | 158,774 |
| Sweden | 8 | 1:1,230,845 | 90,587 |
| United Arab Emirates | 7 | 1:1,308,896 | 51,006 |
| India | 6 | 1:127,844,230 | 863,365 |
| Qatar | 6 | 1:393,000 | 55,922 |
| Egypt | 4 | 1:22,983,938 | 62,368 |
| Switzerland | 4 | 1:2,053,229 | 97,179 |
| Syria | 4 | 1:4,825,256 | 12,827 |
| Poland | 4 | 1:9,502,187 | 181,606 |
| Iran | 2 | 1:38,391,262 | 236,033 |
| Kazakhstan | 2 | 1:8,841,248 | 174,813 |
| Norway | 2 | 1:2,571,143 | 95,402 |
| Chile | 2 | 1:8,808,237 | 65,417 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Latvia | 1 | 1:2,050,046 | 60,295 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Moldova | 1 | 1:3,561,368 | 78,271 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| Cyprus | 1 | 1:884,876 | 13,055 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Azerbaijan | 1 | 1:9,649,122 | 47,873 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Angola | 1 | 1:26,989,214 | 11,853 |
| American Samoa | 1 | 1:55,758 | 3,072 |
Chikh (3,832) may also be a first name.
Chikh Demographics
Average Chikh Salary in
United States
$25,896 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Chikh Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chikh Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Chikh (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻟﺸﻴﺦ, Russian: Чих) is most common in Algeria. It may also be found in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of Chikh.
How Common Is The Last Name Chikh? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 25,445th most commonly occurring last name on earth It is held by around 1 in 343,963 people. Chikh is mostly found in Africa, where 91 percent of Chikh live; 90 percent live in North Africa and 90 percent live in Mahgreb. Chikh is also the 113,483rd most frequent first name at a global level, borne by 3,832 people.
Chikh is most frequently held in Algeria, where it is carried by 18,347 people, or 1 in 2,106. In Algeria Chikh is most frequent in: Algiers Province, where 19 percent live, Tlemcen Province, where 16 percent live and Oran Province, where 11 percent live. Aside from Algeria Chikh occurs in 40 countries. It also occurs in France, where 6 percent live and Morocco, where 4 percent live.
Chikh Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those bearing the surname is chiefly Orthodox (82%) in Russia, Orthodox (100%) in Belarus and Christian (47%) in Ukraine.
The amount Chikh earn in different countries varies somewhat. In United States they earn 39.98% less than the national average, earning $25,896 USD per year and in Canada they earn 31.33% less than the national average, earning $34,119 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Chikh Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Chikh in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻟﺸﻴﺦ | alshykh | 95.45 |
| ﺷﻴﺦ | shykh | 4.55 |
| Chikh in the Russian language | ||
| Чих | cih | - |
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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 Chikh
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