Chinenye Surname

207,153rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 1,999 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
Nigeria

Chinenye Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Chinenye Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nigeria1,9621:90,2876,288
Brazil81:26,759,292405,030
England61:9,286,343223,652
Iceland41:95,0224,787
United States21:181,229,4661,556,795
United Arab Emirates21:4,581,13693,443
South Africa21:27,088,852277,613
Scotland21:2,676,90851,579
India11:767,065,3821,851,717
Malaysia11:29,494,225409,885
Ghana11:27,020,69223,742
Norway11:5,142,286129,201
Pakistan11:178,643,885213,220
Denmark11:5,644,71593,155
Cape Verde11:529,6426,792
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
Sweden11:9,846,757347,448
Burkina Faso11:18,352,10030,051
Australia11:26,995,701270,794

Chinenye (119,811) may also be a first name.

Chinenye Last Name Facts

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

The last name Chinenye is most common in Nigeria. It can be rendered as:. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Chinenye? popularity and diffusion

The last name Chinenye is the 207,153rd most commonly held last name on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 3,645,596 people. The surname is primarily found in Africa, where 98 percent of Chinenye reside; 98 percent reside in West Africa and 98 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 8,616th most frequently used forename worldwide, borne by 119,811 people.

Chinenye is most frequent in Nigeria, where it is held by 1,962 people, or 1 in 90,287. In Nigeria Chinenye is mostly found in: Abia, where 54 percent are found, Rivers, where 9 percent are found and Lagos, where 6 percent are found. Besides Nigeria it exists in 18 countries. It is also found in Brazil, where 0 percent are found and England, where 0 percent are found.

Chinenye Last Name Statistics demography

The religious adherence of those carrying the surname is principally Christian (100%) in Nigeria.

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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 Chinenye
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