Chumah Surname
Approximately 246 people bear this surname
Chumah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 209 | 1:81,910 | 10,289 |
| Zimbabwe | 13 | 1:1,187,557 | 68,998 |
| Kenya | 5 | 1:9,235,980 | 55,978 |
| Tanzania | 4 | 1:13,235,403 | 84,310 |
| Thailand | 4 | 1:17,659,586 | 685,799 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Brazil | 3 | 1:71,358,111 | 770,017 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Zambia | 1 | 1:15,849,922 | 53,989 |
Chumah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chumah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Chumah is found most in Malawi. It may also be rendered as:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Chumah? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,025,894th most commonly held surname on a worldwide basis, borne by around 1 in 29,624,170 people. The last name is mostly found in Africa, where 95 percent of Chumah are found; 91 percent are found in Southern Africa and 91 percent are found in South Bantu Africa.
This last name is most widely held in Malawi, where it is borne by 209 people, or 1 in 81,910. Without taking into account Malawi it is found in 10 countries. It also occurs in Zimbabwe, where 5 percent live and Kenya, where 2 percent live.
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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 Chumah
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