Chivumba Surname

1,048,281st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 239 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Kenya
Highest density in:
Kenya

Chivumba Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Chivumba Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Kenya1651:279,87818,255
Zambia491:323,46817,649
Zimbabwe251:617,53046,943

Chivumba Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Chivumba Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Chivumba occurs more in Kenya more than any other country or territory. It may appear in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Chivumba? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 1,048,281st most frequently used surname worldwide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 30,491,824 people. The last name Chivumba occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Chivumba reside; 69 percent reside in East Africa and 69 percent reside in East Bantu Africa.

This surname is most frequently held in Kenya, where it is held by 165 people, or 1 in 279,878. In Kenya Chivumba is mostly found in: Kwale County, where 100 percent live. Apart from Kenya it occurs in 2 countries. It is also found in Zambia, where 21 percent live and Zimbabwe, where 10 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 Chivumba
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