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་) is found most frequently in Kenya. It can also be rendered as:. For other possible spellings of Choni click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Choni? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 419,686th most commonly held last name on a global scale, borne by approximately 1 in 8,812,027 people. This surname is mostly found in Africa, where 74 percent of Choni live; 53 percent live in East Africa and 46 percent live in East Bantu Africa. Choni is also the 177,004th most widely held first name globally. It is borne by 1,853 people.
It is most commonly held in Kenya, where it is held by 321 people, or 1 in 143,863. In Kenya Choni is most frequent in: Kilifi County, where 77 percent are found, Homa Bay County, where 16 percent are found and Mombasa County, where 3 percent are found. Barring Kenya this surname exists in 34 countries. It is also found in Tanzania, where 14 percent are found and The DR Congo, where 12 percent are found.
Choni Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those holding the last name is principally 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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- 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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