Chiyumba Surname
Approximately 611 people bear this surname
Chiyumba Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zambia | 601 | 1:26,373 | 2,776 |
| Zimbabwe | 6 | 1:2,573,040 | 106,478 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1:23,089,950 | 83,168 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
Chiyumba (50) may also be a first name.
Chiyumba Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chiyumba Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Chiyumba is held by more people in Zambia than any other country/territory. It may also occur in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Chiyumba? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 529,538th most widely held family name on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 11,927,244 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Chiyumba live; 99 percent live in Southern Africa and 99 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,412,538th most frequently used first name internationally, held by 50 people.
This last name is most commonly held in Zambia, where it is held by 601 people, or 1 in 26,373. In Zambia Chiyumba is mostly found in: Southern Province, where 55 percent reside, Lusaka Province, where 37 percent reside and Central Province, where 4 percent reside. Barring Zambia this last name is found in 4 countries. It also occurs in Zimbabwe, where 1 percent reside and Kenya, 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
- 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 Chiyumba
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