Chonga Surname
Approximately 2,852 people bear this surname
Chonga Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenya | 1,124 | 1:41,085 | 4,306 |
| India | 432 | 1:1,775,614 | 63,364 |
| Tanzania | 362 | 1:146,248 | 13,342 |
| Ecuador | 306 | 1:51,980 | 4,806 |
| Malawi | 209 | 1:81,910 | 10,289 |
| Zimbabwe | 96 | 1:160,815 | 20,064 |
| Zambia | 94 | 1:168,616 | 11,729 |
| Uganda | 83 | 1:470,353 | 27,634 |
| DR Congo | 68 | 1:1,086,464 | 68,260 |
| Botswana | 33 | 1:66,271 | 11,607 |
| South Africa | 23 | 1:2,355,552 | 98,611 |
| Nigeria | 7 | 1:25,306,108 | 327,793 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Cameroon | 3 | 1:6,923,023 | 143,724 |
| Cambodia | 2 | 1:7,743,573 | 11,959 |
| Bhutan | 2 | 1:308,020 | 1,264 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Angola | 1 | 1:26,989,214 | 11,853 |
Chonga (671) may also be a first name.
Chonga Demographics
Average Chonga Salary in
South Africa
R 63,384
Per year
Average Salary in
South Africa
R 237,638
Per year
Chonga Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chonga Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Chonga (Bengali: চোঙ্গ, Hindi: चोंगा, Marathi: छोगा, Tibetan: བཅོ་ལྔ་) occurs more in Kenya more than any other country or territory. It may also be found as:. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Chonga? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 154,005th most prevalent last name world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 2,555,241 people. This last name is primarily found in Africa, where 74 percent of Chonga live; 55 percent live in East Africa and 53 percent live in East Bantu Africa. Chonga is also the 320,288th most frequently used first name world-wide, held by 671 people.
The surname Chonga is most frequent in Kenya, where it is carried by 1,124 people, or 1 in 41,085. In Kenya Chonga is most frequent in: Kilifi County, where 64 percent reside, Mombasa County, where 17 percent reside and Kwale County, where 10 percent reside. Apart from Kenya this surname exists in 19 countries. It is also found in India, where 15 percent reside and Tanzania, where 13 percent reside.
Chonga Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the surname is principally Christian (92%) in Kenya.
Chonga earn less than half the average income. In South Africa they earn 73.33% less than the national average, earning R 63,384 per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Chonga Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Chonga in the Bengali language | ||
| চোঙ্গ | conga | - |
| Chonga in the Hindi language | ||
| चोंगा | conga | - |
| Chonga in the Marathi language | ||
| छोगा | choga | - |
| Chonga in the Tibetan language | ||
| བཅོ་ལྔ་ | chonga | 55 |
| བལྕོ་ལྔ་ | bachonga | 11.25 |
| ལྕོ་ལྔ་ | chonga | 6.25 |
| བཅོ་ལྔ། | chonga | 5 |
| བལྕོ་ལྔ། | bachonga | 3.75 |
| བལྕོ་ལྔ་། | bachonga | 2.5 |
| ཅོ་ལྔ་ | chonga | 2.5 |
| བཙོ་ལྔ་ | tsonga | 2.5 |
| ལྕོ་ལྔ། | chonga | 1.25 |
| ཆོང་དགའ། | chongga | 1.25 |
| བཅོ་ལྔ་། | chonga | 1.25 |
| ལྕོ་ང་ | chonga | 1.25 |
| གཅོ་ལྔ་ | chonga | 1.25 |
| བརྕོ་ལྔ་ | barchonga | 1.25 |
| བཅཱོ་ལྔ་ | changa | 1.25 |
| ཆོས་རྔ། | chönga | 1.25 |
| བལྕོ་ལྔ་ཝ | bachongawa | 1.25 |
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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 Chonga
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