Chilwesa Surname
Approximately 24 people bear this surname
Chilwesa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zambia | 21 | 1:754,758 | 27,278 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Chilwesa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chilwesa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Chilwesa is most common in Zambia. It may also be found as:. Click here for further possible spellings of Chilwesa.
How Common Is The Last Name Chilwesa? popularity and diffusion
The last name Chilwesa is the 4,034,050th most commonly occurring last name worldwide, held by approximately 1 in 303,647,746 people. The surname is mostly found in Africa, where 96 percent of Chilwesa reside; 96 percent reside in Southern Africa and 96 percent reside in South Bantu Africa.
This last name is most commonly occurring in Zambia, where it is borne by 21 people, or 1 in 754,758. In Zambia it is mostly concentrated in: Copperbelt Province, where 29 percent live, Lusaka Province, where 19 percent live and Central Province, where 5 percent live. Excluding Zambia Chilwesa occurs in 2 countries. It also occurs in South Africa, where 8 percent live and The United States, where 4 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
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- 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 Chilwesa
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