Mchama Surname
Approximately 156 people bear this surname
Mchama Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 150 | 1:352,944 | 26,073 |
| Kenya | 4 | 1:11,544,975 | 62,419 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
Mchama (13) may also be a first name.
Mchama Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mchama Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Mchama is carried by more people in Tanzania than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Mchama? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,398,030th most frequently used family name world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 46,715,038 people. Mchama occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Mchama live; 99 percent live in East Africa and 96 percent live in East Bantu Africa. It is also the 3,159,357th most widely held given name globally, held by 13 people.
The last name is most prevalent in Tanzania, where it is borne by 150 people, or 1 in 352,944. In Tanzania Mchama is most frequent in: Mara Region, where 47 percent live, Dar es Salaam Region, where 46 percent live and Kilimanjaro Region, where 3 percent live. Other than Tanzania Mchama occurs in 4 countries. It also occurs in Kenya, where 3 percent live and The DR Congo, where 1 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 Mchama
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