Chivheya Surname
Approximately 283 people bear this surname
Chivheya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zimbabwe | 279 | 1:55,334 | 8,377 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Chivheya (10) may also be a first name.
Chivheya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chivheya Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Chivheya is more commonly found in Zimbabwe than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Chivheya? popularity and diffusion
The surname Chivheya is the 930,678th most commonly occurring last name in the world, held by around 1 in 25,751,046 people. The last name Chivheya occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Chivheya live; 99 percent live in Southern Africa and 99 percent live in South Bantu Africa. Chivheya is also the 3,684,242nd most frequent first name globally, borne by 10 people.
The last name Chivheya is most commonly occurring in Zimbabwe, where it is borne by 279 people, or 1 in 55,334. In Zimbabwe it is primarily concentrated in: Masvingo Province, where 42 percent live, Midlands Province, where 33 percent live and Mashonaland West Province, where 9 percent live. Aside from Zimbabwe this surname is found in 3 countries. It is also found in South Africa, where 1 percent live and Greece, where 0 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
- 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 Chivheya
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