Chitara Surname
Approximately 12,986 people bear this surname
Chitara Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mozambique | 12,360 | 1:2,206 | 544 |
| India | 419 | 1:1,830,705 | 64,696 |
| Zimbabwe | 100 | 1:154,382 | 19,513 |
| Tanzania | 92 | 1:575,452 | 36,554 |
| Algeria | 2 | 1:19,315,776 | 97,017 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
The alternate forms: Chitará (4) are calculated separately.
Chitara (397) may also be a first name.
Chitara Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chitara Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Chitara (Hindi: चितारा, Marathi: चीतारा, Oriya: ଚିତରା, Russian: Читара, Tibetan: ཅི་ཏ་ར་) occurs more in Mozambique more than any other country/territory. It can also occur in the variant forms: Chitará. Click here for further possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Chitara? popularity and diffusion
The surname Chitara is the 40,371st most frequently occurring surname internationally. It is borne by around 1 in 561,185 people. It is mostly found in Africa, where 97 percent of Chitara are found; 96 percent are found in Southern Africa and 95 percent are found in Luso-Southern Africa. It is also the 433,463rd most frequently held forename world-wide It is held by 397 people.
This surname is most prevalent in Mozambique, where it is held by 12,360 people, or 1 in 2,206. Other than Mozambique it occurs in 14 countries. It is also common in India, where 3 percent live and Zimbabwe, where 1 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Chitara Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Chitara in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཅི་ཏ་ར་ | chitara | - |
| Chitara in the Marathi language | ||
| चीतारा | citara | 96.97 |
| चीतरा | citara | 3.03 |
| Chitara in the Hindi language | ||
| चितारा | citara | 81.76 |
| चितरा | citara | 15.09 |
| चीतरा | citara | 1.89 |
| Chitara in the Oriya language | ||
| ଚିତରା | citara | 55.56 |
| ଚିତର | citara | 44.44 |
| Chitara in the Russian language | ||
| Читара | citara | - |
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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 Chitara
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