Chiwile Surname
Approximately 297 people bear this surname
Chiwile Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 266 | 1:199,029 | 17,000 |
| Zambia | 28 | 1:566,069 | 23,715 |
| East Timor | 1 | 1:1,215,928 | 507 |
| Sierra Leone | 1 | 1:7,089,631 | 1,533 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Chiwile Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chiwile Come From? nationality or country of origin
Chiwile occurs in Tanzania more than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Chiwile? popularity and diffusion
Chiwile is the 899,940th most widely held last name worldwide. It is borne by around 1 in 24,537,192 people. Chiwile occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Chiwile are found; 90 percent are found in East Africa and 90 percent are found in East Bantu Africa.
The surname Chiwile is most widely held in Tanzania, where it is held by 266 people, or 1 in 199,029. In Tanzania it is mostly concentrated in: Mtwara Region, where 62 percent reside, Morogoro Region, where 35 percent reside and Pwani Region, where 2 percent reside. Besides Tanzania it occurs in 4 countries. It is also common in Zambia, where 9 percent reside and East Timor, where 0 percent reside.
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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 Chiwile
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