Kacheya Surname
Approximately 210 people bear this surname
Kacheya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 130 | 1:407,243 | 28,711 |
| Zambia | 69 | 1:229,709 | 14,265 |
| Malawi | 9 | 1:1,902,123 | 19,532 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
Kacheya (16) may also be a first name.
Kacheya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kacheya Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kacheya is borne by more people in Tanzania than any other country or territory. It can be found in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Kacheya.
How Common Is The Last Name Kacheya? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,144,405th most frequently used family name worldwide It is held by approximately 1 in 34,702,600 people. The surname is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Kacheya live; 62 percent live in East Africa and 62 percent live in East Bantu Africa. Kacheya is also the 2,786,762nd most prevalent first name world-wide, borne by 16 people.
The surname is most frequently occurring in Tanzania, where it is carried by 130 people, or 1 in 407,243. In Tanzania it is most frequent in: Morogoro Region, where 58 percent live and Dar es Salaam Region, where 42 percent live. Barring Tanzania this surname is found in 4 countries. It is also common in Zambia, where 33 percent live and Malawi, where 4 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
- 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 Kacheya
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