Chimbuya Surname
Approximately 1,205 people bear this surname
Chimbuya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zimbabwe | 1,118 | 1:13,809 | 1,897 |
| Zambia | 57 | 1:278,069 | 16,150 |
| England | 14 | 1:3,979,861 | 125,553 |
| South Africa | 11 | 1:4,925,246 | 143,631 |
| Tanzania | 3 | 1:17,647,204 | 107,932 |
| Namibia | 1 | 1:2,409,401 | 19,676 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Chimbuya (224) may also be a first name.
Chimbuya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chimbuya Come From? nationality or country of origin
Chimbuya is most common in Zimbabwe. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Chimbuya? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 312,208th most frequently occurring last name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by around 1 in 6,047,756 people. The surname Chimbuya occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Chimbuya reside; 99 percent reside in Southern Africa and 99 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 601,629th most frequent first name world-wide, borne by 224 people.
The surname Chimbuya is most commonly held in Zimbabwe, where it is borne by 1,118 people, or 1 in 13,809. In Zimbabwe it is most numerous in: Masvingo Province, where 41 percent reside, Manicaland Province, where 24 percent reside and Harare Province, where 11 percent reside. Aside from Zimbabwe Chimbuya is found in 6 countries. It also occurs in Zambia, where 5 percent reside and England, where 1 percent reside.
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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 Chimbuya
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