Choni Surname
Approximately 827 people bear this surname
Choni Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenya | 321 | 1:143,863 | 11,573 |
| Tanzania | 117 | 1:452,492 | 31,593 |
| DR Congo | 103 | 1:717,277 | 51,618 |
| Pakistan | 57 | 1:3,134,103 | 24,953 |
| Solomon Islands | 49 | 1:11,837 | 2,134 |
| India | 33 | 1:23,244,406 | 321,547 |
| Spain | 32 | 1:1,461,001 | 45,498 |
| South Africa | 25 | 1:2,167,108 | 94,352 |
| Niger | 13 | 1:1,476,309 | 30,154 |
| Indonesia | 13 | 1:10,173,015 | 372,576 |
| Russia | 9 | 1:16,013,673 | 414,297 |
| Zimbabwe | 7 | 1:2,205,463 | 97,905 |
| Zambia | 6 | 1:2,641,654 | 34,188 |
| Lesotho | 5 | 1:406,512 | 17,363 |
| Ghana | 4 | 1:6,755,173 | 15,406 |
| Uganda | 4 | 1:9,759,820 | 144,676 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Norway | 4 | 1:1,285,572 | 69,185 |
| Bhutan | 3 | 1:205,346 | 1,091 |
| Argentina | 2 | 1:21,371,707 | 253,176 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Malawi | 1 | 1:17,119,109 | 34,144 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 1 | 1:1,135,674 | 984 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 1:6,978,905 | 86,260 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Bahamas | 1 | 1:391,751 | 2,737 |
| Azerbaijan | 1 | 1:9,649,122 | 47,873 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
Choni (1,853) may also be a first name.
Choni Demographics
Average Choni Salary in
South Africa
R 89,616
Per year
Average Salary in
South Africa
R 237,638
Per year
Choni Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Choni Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Choni (Hindi: चोनी, Marathi: चोनी, Russian: Чони, Tibetan: ཆོས་ཉིད་) occurs most in Kenya. It may be found as:. For other possible spellings of Choni click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Choni? popularity and diffusion
The surname Choni is the 419,686th most commonly occurring family name on a worldwide basis, held by approximately 1 in 8,812,027 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 74 percent of Choni reside; 53 percent reside in East Africa and 46 percent reside in East Bantu Africa. It is also the 177,004th most prevalent given name in the world, borne by 1,853 people.
The surname is most widely held in Kenya, where it is borne by 321 people, or 1 in 143,863. In Kenya it is mostly concentrated in: Kilifi County, where 77 percent reside, Homa Bay County, where 16 percent reside and Mombasa County, where 3 percent reside. Apart from Kenya Choni occurs in 34 countries. It is also common in Tanzania, where 14 percent reside and The DR Congo, where 12 percent reside.
Choni Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the surname is predominantly Christian (100%) in Kenya.
Choni earn less than half the average income. In South Africa they earn 62.29% less than the national average, earning R 89,616 per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Choni Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Choni in the Hindi language | ||
| चोनी | coni | 88.68 |
| चॉनी | coni | 7.55 |
| चोणी | coni | 3.77 |
| Choni in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཆོས་ཉིད་ | chönyi | 79.88 |
| ཆོས་ཉིད། | chönyi | 8.28 |
| ཆོས་སྙིད་ | chönyi | 5.33 |
| ཆོད་ཉིད་ | chönyi | 1.18 |
| ཆོས་སྙིད། | chönyi | 1.18 |
| ཆོས་ཉིས་ | chönyi | 1.18 |
| ཆོས་སྙིང་ | chönying | 0.59 |
| ཆོས་ནིད་ | chöni | 0.59 |
| ཆཽས་ཉིད་ | chaunyi | 0.59 |
| ཆོས་ནི་ | chöni | 0.59 |
| ཆོ་ཉི་ | chonyi | 0.59 |
| Choni in the Marathi language | ||
| चोनी | coni | 50 |
| चॉनी | coni | 50 |
| Choni in the Russian language | ||
| Чони | coni | - |
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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 Choni
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