Kancheya Surname
Approximately 50 people bear this surname
Kancheya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zambia | 49 | 1:323,468 | 17,649 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Kancheya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kancheya Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kancheya is found most frequently in Zambia. It can also appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kancheya? popularity and diffusion
The surname Kancheya is the 2,746,821st most commonly held last name on a global scale, borne by around 1 in 145,750,918 people. The last name Kancheya occurs mostly in Africa, where 98 percent of Kancheya live; 98 percent live in Southern Africa and 98 percent live in South Bantu Africa.
This surname is most prevalent in Zambia, where it is borne by 49 people, or 1 in 323,468. In Zambia Kancheya is primarily found in: Lusaka Province, where 53 percent live, Southern Province, where 27 percent live and Eastern Province, where 4 percent live. Not including Zambia this last name exists in one country. It also occurs in The United States, 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
- 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 Kancheya
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