Chooka Surname
Approximately 1,818 people bear this surname
Chooka Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zambia | 1,774 | 1:8,935 | 1,043 |
| DR Congo | 27 | 1:2,736,280 | 122,818 |
| India | 5 | 1:153,413,076 | 951,030 |
| South Africa | 4 | 1:13,544,426 | 222,367 |
| Taiwan | 2 | 1:11,722,373 | 63,559 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
Chooka (13) may also be a first name.
Chooka Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chooka Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Chooka occurs more in Zambia more than any other country/territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Chooka? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 223,913th most widely held family name throughout the world. It is borne by around 1 in 4,008,551 people. This last name is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Chooka live; 98 percent live in Southern Africa and 98 percent live in South Bantu Africa. Chooka is also the 3,159,357th most numerous given name in the world, borne by 13 people.
This last name is most commonly used in Zambia, where it is held by 1,774 people, or 1 in 8,935. In Zambia it is most frequent in: Southern Province, where 49 percent reside, Central Province, where 33 percent reside and Lusaka Province, where 13 percent reside. Apart from Zambia this surname exists in 10 countries. It is also found in The DR Congo, where 1 percent reside and India, where 0 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 Chooka
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