Chileka Surname
Approximately 1,528 people bear this surname
Chileka Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 1,072 | 1:15,969 | 2,510 |
| Zambia | 407 | 1:38,943 | 3,882 |
| Zimbabwe | 26 | 1:593,778 | 45,605 |
| Tanzania | 12 | 1:4,411,801 | 54,433 |
| Nigeria | 3 | 1:59,047,586 | 507,603 |
| Namibia | 2 | 1:1,204,700 | 16,113 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Chileka (66) may also be a first name.
Chileka Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chileka Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Chileka is most common in Malawi. It can occur in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Chileka? popularity and diffusion
The surname Chileka is the 257,677th most widespread last name internationally It is held by approximately 1 in 4,769,336 people. Chileka occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Chileka reside; 99 percent reside in Southern Africa and 99 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. Chileka is also the 1,201,840th most frequently held first name on earth. It is borne by 66 people.
The last name is most commonly used in Malawi, where it is borne by 1,072 people, or 1 in 15,969. Barring Malawi Chileka is found in 11 countries. It also occurs in Zambia, where 27 percent live and Zimbabwe, where 2 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 Chileka
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