Chombe Surname
Approximately 6,600 people bear this surname
Chombe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ethiopia | 1,610 | 1:60,588 | 6,165 |
| Angola | 1,578 | 1:17,103 | 2,033 |
| Uganda | 1,223 | 1:31,921 | 4,297 |
| Zambia | 692 | 1:22,905 | 2,457 |
| Malawi | 497 | 1:34,445 | 5,098 |
| Zimbabwe | 412 | 1:37,471 | 5,808 |
| DR Congo | 239 | 1:309,120 | 27,984 |
| Tanzania | 125 | 1:423,533 | 29,670 |
| India | 104 | 1:7,375,629 | 160,209 |
| Cameroon | 64 | 1:324,517 | 29,689 |
| Mozambique | 16 | 1:1,703,848 | 2,274 |
| Nigeria | 11 | 1:16,103,887 | 259,204 |
| Sweden | 4 | 1:2,461,689 | 157,534 |
| Canada | 3 | 1:12,281,864 | 364,614 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Peru | 2 | 1:15,892,062 | 51,966 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1 | 1:3,536,402 | 19,532 |
| Botswana | 1 | 1:2,186,929 | 30,250 |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 1:9,162,273 | 135,437 |
| Cape Verde | 1 | 1:529,642 | 6,792 |
| South Korea | 1 | 1:51,240,256 | 8,015 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 1 | 1:177,423 | 3,686 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Nepal | 1 | 1:28,480,956 | 22,413 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
The alternate forms: Chombé (1) are calculated separately.
Chombe (595) may also be a first name.
Chombe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chombe Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Chombe is found most in Ethiopia. It can be found in the variant forms: Chombé. Click here to see other potential spellings of Chombe.
How Common Is The Last Name Chombe? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 74,479th most commonly held surname on earth, held by around 1 in 1,104,174 people. Chombe occurs predominantly in Africa, where 98 percent of Chombe live; 48 percent live in Southern Africa and 24 percent live in Ethiosemitic Africa. Chombe is also the 342,839th most commonly occurring given name worldwide, borne by 595 people.
This surname is most common in Ethiopia, where it is carried by 1,610 people, or 1 in 60,588. Beside Ethiopia it occurs in 30 countries. It is also common in Angola, where 24 percent reside and Uganda, where 19 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 Chombe
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