Chimoun Surname
Approximately 165 people bear this surname
Chimoun Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 149 | 1:139,390 | 15,562 |
| Sweden | 9 | 1:1,094,084 | 81,336 |
| South Africa | 3 | 1:18,059,235 | 248,362 |
| Senegal | 2 | 1:7,289,671 | 8,117 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Chimoun Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chimoun Come From? nationality or country of origin
Chimoun is found most in Cameroon. It may be rendered as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Chimoun.
How Common Is The Last Name Chimoun? popularity and diffusion
The surname Chimoun is the 1,348,199th most prevalent surname in the world. It is borne by around 1 in 44,166,945 people. The last name Chimoun occurs mostly in Africa, where 94 percent of Chimoun live; 90 percent live in Central Africa and 90 percent live in Central Bantu Africa.
This surname is most widely held in Cameroon, where it is borne by 149 people, or 1 in 139,390. In Cameroon it is most prevalent in: West Region, where 93 percent live, Littoral Region, where 7 percent live and South Region, where 1 percent live. Besides Cameroon this surname occurs in 5 countries. It is also common in Sweden, where 5 percent live and South Africa, 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
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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 Chimoun
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