Chitonje Surname
Approximately 138 people bear this surname
Chitonje Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zimbabwe | 130 | 1:118,756 | 16,091 |
| Zambia | 6 | 1:2,641,654 | 34,188 |
| Malawi | 1 | 1:17,119,109 | 34,144 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Chitonje Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chitonje Come From? nationality or country of origin
Chitonje is found most frequently in Zimbabwe. It may also occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Chitonje click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Chitonje? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,511,557th most commonly held family name worldwide, borne by around 1 in 52,808,304 people. The last name Chitonje occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Chitonje are found; 100 percent are found in Southern Africa and 100 percent are found in South Bantu Africa.
The surname Chitonje is most frequent in Zimbabwe, where it is borne by 130 people, or 1 in 118,756. In Zimbabwe it is primarily found in: Mashonaland East Province, where 64 percent live, Harare Province, where 13 percent live and Bulawayo Province, where 8 percent live. Aside from Zimbabwe this last name is found in 3 countries. It also occurs in Zambia, where 4 percent live and Malawi, where 1 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 Chitonje
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