Chima Surname
Approximately 95,367 people bear this surname
Chima Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 64,221 | 1:2,758 | 355 |
| Malawi | 12,103 | 1:1,414 | 136 |
| Colombia | 3,446 | 1:13,864 | 1,284 |
| Tanzania | 3,186 | 1:16,617 | 2,150 |
| Zambia | 3,064 | 1:5,173 | 633 |
| Pakistan | 1,950 | 1:91,612 | 3,023 |
| India | 1,859 | 1:412,623 | 21,709 |
| Ghana | 901 | 1:29,990 | 3,547 |
| Mexico | 773 | 1:160,577 | 4,807 |
| England | 751 | 1:74,192 | 8,438 |
| United States | 696 | 1:520,774 | 43,486 |
| Ecuador | 617 | 1:25,779 | 3,358 |
| Zimbabwe | 266 | 1:58,038 | 8,803 |
| Canada | 217 | 1:169,795 | 17,065 |
| Romania | 210 | 1:95,609 | 10,943 |
| South Africa | 174 | 1:311,366 | 29,669 |
| Italy | 125 | 1:489,254 | 50,132 |
| Venezuela | 108 | 1:279,667 | 6,618 |
| DR Congo | 96 | 1:769,579 | 54,223 |
| Peru | 61 | 1:521,051 | 14,430 |
| Iran | 59 | 1:1,301,399 | 54,450 |
| Argentina | 58 | 1:736,955 | 49,943 |
| Niger | 42 | 1:456,953 | 12,306 |
| Scotland | 42 | 1:127,472 | 7,985 |
| Spain | 41 | 1:1,140,294 | 40,056 |
| Thailand | 33 | 1:2,140,556 | 247,258 |
| Botswana | 28 | 1:78,105 | 13,263 |
| Brazil | 22 | 1:9,730,651 | 206,332 |
| Russia | 17 | 1:8,477,827 | 301,506 |
| Germany | 16 | 1:5,031,591 | 189,895 |
| Ireland | 14 | 1:336,353 | 12,021 |
| Indonesia | 13 | 1:10,173,015 | 372,576 |
| Ivory Coast | 13 | 1:1,774,710 | 34,235 |
| Malaysia | 11 | 1:2,681,293 | 102,971 |
| Hong Kong | 9 | 1:815,054 | 3,802 |
| Iceland | 9 | 1:42,232 | 2,922 |
| Qatar | 9 | 1:262,000 | 30,726 |
| Liberia | 8 | 1:551,067 | 25,208 |
| Cameroon | 7 | 1:2,967,010 | 123,373 |
| Senegal | 7 | 1:2,082,763 | 4,662 |
| Kazakhstan | 5 | 1:3,536,499 | 118,599 |
| France | 5 | 1:13,284,544 | 357,392 |
| Bolivia | 5 | 1:2,123,287 | 6,830 |
| Netherlands | 5 | 1:3,377,435 | 111,911 |
| Saudi Arabia | 4 | 1:7,713,954 | 37,548 |
| Norway | 4 | 1:1,285,572 | 69,185 |
| Poland | 4 | 1:9,502,187 | 181,606 |
| Uganda | 4 | 1:9,759,820 | 144,676 |
| Egypt | 4 | 1:22,983,938 | 62,368 |
| Greece | 4 | 1:2,769,948 | 101,568 |
| Australia | 3 | 1:8,998,567 | 200,784 |
| Finland | 3 | 1:1,832,234 | 57,803 |
| Algeria | 3 | 1:12,877,184 | 84,902 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1:23,089,950 | 83,168 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| Benin | 2 | 1:5,167,801 | 84,334 |
| Denmark | 2 | 1:2,822,358 | 76,882 |
| Djibouti | 1 | 1:914,932 | 1,612 |
| Northern Ireland | 1 | 1:1,845,036 | 20,648 |
| Angola | 1 | 1:26,989,214 | 11,853 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
| Vietnam | 1 | 1:92,646,054 | 8,382 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Cambodia | 1 | 1:15,487,146 | 14,824 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| El Salvador | 1 | 1:6,343,888 | 8,415 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 1 | 1:1,135,674 | 984 |
| South Sudan | 1 | 1:11,415,076 | 3,182 |
| South Korea | 1 | 1:51,240,256 | 8,015 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Gambia | 1 | 1:1,923,451 | 1,043 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Latvia | 1 | 1:2,050,046 | 60,295 |
| Libya | 1 | 1:6,243,974 | 6,186 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 1:25,109,342 | 694,541 |
The alternate forms: Chimá (10) & Chimà (1) are calculated separately.
Chima (101,838) may also be a first name.
Chima Demographics
Average Male Chima Height
173.41 cm
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Chima Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chima Come From? nationality or country of origin
Chima (Arabic: الصيمي, Bengali: চিমা, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺷﻴﻤﻪ, Hindi: चीमा, Marathi: चीमा, Oriya: ଚିମା, Russian: Чима, Tibetan: འཆི་མ།) is more commonly found in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It can be found as a variant: Chimá or Chimà. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Chima? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 5,913th most frequently held surname worldwide. It is borne by around 1 in 76,416 people. The last name Chima is primarily found in Africa, where 88 percent of Chima live; 68 percent live in West Africa and 68 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Chima is also the 10,024th most prevalent first name throughout the world, held by 101,838 people.
The surname is most prevalent in Nigeria, where it is carried by 64,221 people, or 1 in 2,758. In Nigeria Chima is mostly concentrated in: Imo, where 24 percent reside, Ebonyi, where 15 percent reside and Anambra, where 14 percent reside. Not including Nigeria Chima is found in 80 countries. It is also common in Malawi, where 13 percent reside and Colombia, where 4 percent reside.
Chima Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Chima has changed over time. In The United States the number of people bearing the Chima surname grew 34,800 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Chima Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those holding the Chima last name is primarily Christian (99%) in Nigeria.
In The United States those bearing the Chima surname are 15.53% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 62.3% registered with the political party.
The amount Chima earn in different countries varies greatly. In Italy they earn 30.9% less than the national average, earning €20,750 per year; in Peru they earn 2.68% more than the national average, earning S/. 19,904 per year; in South Africa they earn 41.79% less than the national average, earning R 138,324 per year; in Colombia they earn 25.68% less than the national average, earning $16,872,000 COP per year; in United States they earn 9.34% more than the national average, earning $47,181 USD per year and in Canada they earn 15.03% more than the national average, earning $57,151 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Chima Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Chima in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺷﻴﻤﻪ | shymh | - |
| Chima in the Marathi language | ||
| चीमा | cima | 97.39 |
| भीमा | bhima | 0.56 |
| िममा | imama | 0.19 |
| Chima in the Oriya language | ||
| ଚିମା | cima | 94.12 |
| ଚିମ | cima | 5.88 |
| Chima in the Bengali language | ||
| চিমা | cima | 85.71 |
| চিমারুং | cimarum | 14.29 |
| Chima in the Hindi language | ||
| चीमा | cima | 59.06 |
| चिमा | cima | 40.34 |
| छिमा | chima | 0.36 |
| छीमा | chima | 0.24 |
| Chima in the Tibetan language | ||
| འཆི་མ། | chima | 25 |
| ཆི་མ་ | chima | 25 |
| ཅི་མ། | chima | 25 |
| ཅི་མ་ | chima | 25 |
| Chima in the Russian language | ||
| Чима | cima | - |
| Chima in the Arabic language | ||
| الصيمي | alsymy | - |
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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 Chima
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