Kitchem Surname
Approximately 5 people bear this surname
Kitchem Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 3 | 1:6,923,023 | 143,724 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 31 | 1:1,619,958 | 85,073 |
Kitchem Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kitchem Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kitchem is most common in Cameroon. It can occur in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Kitchem click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kitchem? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 8,193,072nd most numerous last name throughout the world. It is borne by around 1 in 1,457,509,183 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 60 percent of Kitchem live; 40 percent live in Central Africa and 40 percent live in Central Bantu Africa.
This surname is most frequently used in Cameroon, where it is borne by 3 people, or 1 in 6,923,023. In Cameroon Kitchem is mostly concentrated in: Northwest Region, where 67 percent live and Far North Region, where 33 percent live. Apart from Cameroon Kitchem exists in 2 countries. It is also found in Canada, where 20 percent live and The United States, where 20 percent live.
Kitchem Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Kitchem has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Kitchem surname declined 97 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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
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