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
Chombe occurs more in Ethiopia more than any other country or territory. It can appear as: Chombé. Click here for further possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Chombe? popularity and diffusion
Chombe is the 74,479th most numerous last name internationally. It is borne by around 1 in 1,104,174 people. This last name is mostly found 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 frequently occurring forename internationally, borne by 595 people.
The last name Chombe is most frequently used in Ethiopia, where it is held by 1,610 people, or 1 in 60,588. Outside of Ethiopia this last name occurs in 30 countries. It is also found 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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