Chungwa Surname
Approximately 1,504 people bear this surname
Chungwa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 574 | 1:92,233 | 9,227 |
| Malawi | 549 | 1:31,182 | 4,677 |
| South Africa | 124 | 1:436,917 | 37,311 |
| Kenya | 94 | 1:491,276 | 25,271 |
| Bhutan | 89 | 1:6,922 | 293 |
| Zambia | 53 | 1:299,055 | 16,868 |
| Zimbabwe | 15 | 1:1,029,216 | 63,831 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Chungwa (11) may also be a first name.
Chungwa Demographics
Average Chungwa Salary in
South Africa
R 35,376
Per year
Average Salary in
South Africa
R 237,638
Per year
Chungwa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chungwa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Chungwa (Tibetan: ཆུང་བ།) is more commonly found in Tanzania than any other country/territory. It can also appear as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of Chungwa.
How Common Is The Last Name Chungwa? popularity and diffusion
It is the 261,034th most frequently held surname world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 4,845,443 people. The last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 94 percent of Chungwa live; 49 percent live in Southern Africa and 49 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 3,487,849th most commonly held first name on earth It is held by 11 people.
The last name Chungwa is most frequent in Tanzania, where it is carried by 574 people, or 1 in 92,233. In Tanzania Chungwa is mostly concentrated in: Njombe Region, where 78 percent reside, Ruvuma Region, where 12 percent reside and Iringa Region, where 8 percent reside. Without taking into account Tanzania this surname exists in 12 countries. It is also found in Malawi, where 37 percent reside and South Africa, where 8 percent reside.
Chungwa Last Name Statistics demography
Chungwa earn less than half the average income. In South Africa they earn 85.11% less than the national average, earning R 35,376 per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Chungwa Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Chungwa in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཆུང་བ། | chungwa | 94.23 |
| ཆུང་ཝ། | chungwa | 3.85 |
| ཆུང་བ།། | chungwa | 1.92 |
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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 Chungwa
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