Chimombo Surname

42,611th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 12,220 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Malawi
Highest density in:
Malawi

Chimombo Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Chimombo Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Malawi11,6331:1,472145
Zimbabwe3001:51,4617,829
Tanzania2021:262,08720,938
Zambia711:223,23814,032
England51:11,143,612252,590
Iceland21:190,0456,825
Angola11:26,989,21411,853
Egypt11:91,935,754132,737
Norway11:5,142,286129,201
Singapore11:5,507,70347,049
South Africa11:54,177,704343,732
Sudan11:37,510,19514,259
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Chimombo (10) may also be a first name.

Chimombo Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Chimombo Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Chimombo is held by more people in Malawi than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Chimombo? popularity and diffusion

Chimombo is the 42,611th most commonly occurring surname at a global level, held by approximately 1 in 596,362 people. The last name Chimombo is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Chimombo live; 98 percent live in Southern Africa and 98 percent live in South Bantu Africa. Chimombo is also the 3,684,242nd most widely held first name at a global level. It is borne by 10 people.

This last name is most prevalent in Malawi, where it is borne by 11,633 people, or 1 in 1,472. Aside from Malawi this last name is found in 12 countries. It is also common in Zimbabwe, where 2 percent reside and Tanzania, where 2 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 Chimombo
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