Chipawa Surname
Approximately 746 people bear this surname
Chipawa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zambia | 733 | 1:21,623 | 2,359 |
| Kenya | 4 | 1:11,544,975 | 62,419 |
| Namibia | 2 | 1:1,204,700 | 16,113 |
| Peru | 2 | 1:15,892,062 | 51,966 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Chipawa (15) may also be a first name.
Chipawa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chipawa Come From? nationality or country of origin
Chipawa is found in Zambia more than any other country/territory. It may occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Chipawa click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Chipawa? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 454,357th most frequently held surname in the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 9,768,828 people. The surname Chipawa is primarily found in Africa, where 99 percent of Chipawa live; 99 percent live in Southern Africa and 99 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 2,900,335th most frequently used first name internationally It is held by 15 people.
The surname is most frequent in Zambia, where it is borne by 733 people, or 1 in 21,623. In Zambia it is most frequent in: North-Western Province, where 73 percent are found, Copperbelt Province, where 15 percent are found and Lusaka Province, where 11 percent are found. Excluding Zambia this last name occurs in 8 countries. It also occurs in Kenya, where 1 percent are found and Namibia, where 0 percent are found.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Chipawa
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