Chove Surname
Approximately 1,059 people bear this surname
Chove Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 792 | 1:66,845 | 7,056 |
| India | 217 | 1:3,534,864 | 100,127 |
| France | 13 | 1:5,109,440 | 259,941 |
| South Africa | 13 | 1:4,167,516 | 132,322 |
| Papua New Guinea | 12 | 1:679,476 | 78,554 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Zimbabwe | 3 | 1:5,146,080 | 115,446 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
The alternate forms: Chové (16) are calculated separately.
Chove (109) may also be a first name.
Chove Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chove Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Chove (Hindi: चोवे, Marathi: चोवे) is most common in Tanzania. It can be rendered in the variant forms: Chové. For other possible spellings of Chove click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Chove? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 345,633rd most commonly held last name in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 6,881,535 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 76 percent of Chove reside; 75 percent reside in East Africa and 75 percent reside in East Bantu Africa. It is also the 900,062nd most commonly used first name globally It is held by 109 people.
It is most frequently held in Tanzania, where it is borne by 792 people, or 1 in 66,845. In Tanzania it is mostly concentrated in: Njombe Region, where 29 percent are found, Mbeya Region, where 21 percent are found and Dodoma Region, where 19 percent are found. Besides Tanzania this last name exists in 11 countries. It is also common in India, where 20 percent are found and France, where 1 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Chove Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Chove in the Marathi language | ||
| चोवे | cove | - |
| Chove in the Hindi language | ||
| चोवे | cove | 95.95 |
| छोवे | chove | 2.7 |
| चॉवे | cove | 1.35 |
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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 Chove
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