Chiyenu Surname
Approximately 45 people bear this surname
Chiyenu Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zambia | 41 | 1:386,583 | 19,508 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Chiyenu Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chiyenu Come From? nationality or country of origin
Chiyenu is found most frequently in Zambia. It can also be rendered as:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Chiyenu? popularity and diffusion
Chiyenu is the 2,909,720th most frequent last name on a worldwide basis, held by around 1 in 161,945,465 people. The surname Chiyenu occurs mostly in Africa, where 98 percent of Chiyenu reside; 93 percent reside in Southern Africa and 93 percent reside in South Bantu Africa.
This last name is most prevalent in Zambia, where it is carried by 41 people, or 1 in 386,583. In Zambia Chiyenu is most frequent in: Lusaka Province, where 80 percent are found and Copperbelt Province, where 2 percent are found. Aside from Zambia it is found in 3 countries. It also occurs in Nigeria, where 4 percent are found and Israel, where 2 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
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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 Chiyenu
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