Chuku Surname
Approximately 128,713 people bear this surname
Chuku Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 127,894 | 1:1,385 | 177 |
| India | 171 | 1:4,485,762 | 116,822 |
| Japan | 157 | 1:814,295 | 18,255 |
| Tanzania | 127 | 1:416,863 | 29,360 |
| United States | 108 | 1:3,356,101 | 190,802 |
| England | 67 | 1:831,613 | 44,286 |
| Zimbabwe | 40 | 1:385,956 | 35,257 |
| Lesotho | 30 | 1:67,752 | 9,213 |
| DR Congo | 27 | 1:2,736,280 | 122,818 |
| South Africa | 27 | 1:2,006,582 | 90,678 |
| Uganda | 17 | 1:2,296,428 | 70,019 |
| Solomon Islands | 13 | 1:44,618 | 8,903 |
| Liberia | 6 | 1:734,756 | 29,369 |
| Ghana | 4 | 1:6,755,173 | 15,406 |
| Canada | 4 | 1:9,211,398 | 321,528 |
| Sudan | 4 | 1:9,377,549 | 8,207 |
| Cameroon | 3 | 1:6,923,023 | 143,724 |
| Thailand | 2 | 1:35,319,172 | 966,191 |
| Zambia | 1 | 1:15,849,922 | 53,989 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Oman | 1 | 1:3,687,971 | 14,390 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Albania | 1 | 1:2,914,055 | 29,474 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
Chuku (2,909) may also be a first name.
Chuku Demographics
Chuku Religious Adherence
in Nigeria
Religious Adherence
in Nigeria
Chuku Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chuku Come From? nationality or country of origin
Chuku (Bengali: চুকু, Hindi: चुकू, Marathi: चुकु, Oriya: ଚୁକୁ, Tibetan: ཆུ་ཀུ་) is found most in Nigeria. It may appear as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Chuku? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 4,373rd most commonly occurring last name worldwide. It is borne by around 1 in 56,619 people. The last name Chuku is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Chuku reside; 99 percent reside in West Africa and 99 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Chuku is also the 134,657th most prevalent first name internationally, borne by 2,909 people.
Chuku is most prevalent in Nigeria, where it is held by 127,894 people, or 1 in 1,385. In Nigeria Chuku is most numerous in: Rivers, where 93 percent are found, Adamawa, where 3 percent are found and Katsina, where 1 percent are found. Other than Nigeria it exists in 29 countries. It is also found in India, where 0 percent are found and Japan, where 0 percent are found.
Chuku Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those carrying the Chuku surname is predominantly Christian (95%) in Nigeria.
In The United States those holding the Chuku last name are 0.29% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than the national average, with 52.94% registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Chuku earn in different countries varies notably. In South Africa they earn 28.35% less than the national average, earning R 170,268 per year and in United States they earn 4.16% less than the national average, earning $41,354 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Chuku Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Chuku in the Bengali language | ||
| চুকু | cuku | - |
| Chuku in the Oriya language | ||
| ଚୁକୁ | cuku | 91.49 |
| ଚୂକୁ | cuku | 6.38 |
| ଚୂକୂ | cuku | 2.13 |
| Chuku in the Marathi language | ||
| चुकु | cuku | 53.07 |
| चुकू | cuku | 27.44 |
| चूकू | cuku | 18.41 |
| चूकु | cuku | 1.08 |
| Chuku in the Hindi language | ||
| चुकू | cuku | 46.67 |
| चूकू | cuku | 26.67 |
| चुकु | cuku | 20 |
| छूकु | chuku | 6.67 |
| Chuku in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཆུ་ཀུ་ | chuku | 40 |
| ཆུ་སྐུ་ | chuku | 20 |
| ཅུ་ཀུ་ | chuku | 20 |
| ཆོས་སྐུ་ | chöku | 20 |
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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 Chuku
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