Chitenta Surname
Approximately 338 people bear this surname
Chitenta Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zambia | 337 | 1:47,032 | 4,504 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Chitenta Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chitenta Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Chitenta is held by more people in Zambia than any other country or territory. It may appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Chitenta? popularity and diffusion
It is the 821,713th most common last name on a worldwide basis It is held by around 1 in 21,560,787 people. It occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Chitenta live; 100 percent live in Southern Africa and 100 percent live in South Bantu Africa.
This last name is most frequently used in Zambia, where it is carried by 337 people, or 1 in 47,032. In Zambia Chitenta is most common in: Central Province, where 57 percent are found, Copperbelt Province, where 30 percent are found and Lusaka Province, where 11 percent are found. Excluding Zambia this last name is found in one country. It also occurs in The United States, 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 Chitenta
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