Chongore Surname
Approximately 199 people bear this surname
Chongore Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zimbabwe | 184 | 1:83,903 | 12,221 |
| Tanzania | 12 | 1:4,411,801 | 54,433 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1:23,089,950 | 83,168 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Chongore Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chongore Come From? nationality or country of origin
Chongore is borne by more people in Zimbabwe than any other country/territory. It can appear as a variant:. For other possible spellings of Chongore click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Chongore? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 1,189,614th most commonly used last name throughout the world, borne by approximately 1 in 36,620,834 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Chongore live; 92 percent live in Southern Africa and 92 percent live in South Bantu Africa.
The surname Chongore is most frequently occurring in Zimbabwe, where it is held by 184 people, or 1 in 83,903. In Zimbabwe Chongore is mostly found in: Masvingo Province, where 64 percent live, Harare Province, where 11 percent live and Bulawayo Province, where 11 percent live. Not including Zimbabwe this last name is found in 3 countries. It also occurs in Tanzania, where 6 percent live and Kenya, where 1 percent live.
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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 Chongore
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