Choku Surname
Approximately 45 people bear this surname
Choku Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 14 | 1:3,869,836 | 127,494 |
| United States | 14 | 1:25,889,924 | 709,614 |
| India | 4 | 1:191,766,346 | 1,073,940 |
| Nigeria | 4 | 1:44,285,690 | 437,567 |
| Taiwan | 4 | 1:5,861,186 | 33,577 |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 1:6,978,905 | 86,260 |
| Guyana | 1 | 1:762,221 | 14,420 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
Choku (646) may also be a first name.
Choku Demographics
Average Choku Salary in
United States
$35,177 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Choku Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Choku Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Choku (Hindi: छोकू, Marathi: चोकू, Tibetan: ཆོས་སྐུ།) is found most in South Africa. It may appear as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Choku? popularity and diffusion
It is the 2,909,720th most frequent family name world-wide, borne by approximately 1 in 161,945,465 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 44 percent of Choku reside; 31 percent reside in Southern Africa and 31 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. Choku is also the 327,050th most frequently occurring given name internationally, held by 646 people.
The surname Choku is most frequent in South Africa, where it is carried by 14 people, or 1 in 3,869,836. In South Africa it is primarily found in: Gauteng, where 93 percent are found and North West, where 7 percent are found. Other than South Africa Choku is found in 9 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 31 percent are found and India, where 9 percent are found.
Choku Last Name Statistics demography
The amount Choku earn in different countries varies markedly. In South Africa they earn 55.67% less than the national average, earning R 105,336 per year and in United States they earn 18.48% less than the national average, earning $35,177 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Choku Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Choku in the Hindi language | ||
| छोकू | choku | 50 |
| चोकू | coku | 50 |
| Choku in the Marathi language | ||
| चोकू | coku | 50 |
| चोकु | coku | 50 |
| Choku in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཆོས་སྐུ། | chöku | 47.73 |
| ཆོས་སྐུ་ | chöku | 43.18 |
| ཆོས་ཀུ་ | chöku | 6.82 |
| ཆུང་ཀུ་ | chungku | 2.27 |
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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 Choku
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