Tchale Surname
Approximately 4,028 people bear this surname
Tchale Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 3,268 | 1:5,238 | 739 |
| Chad | 481 | 1:28,258 | 3,335 |
| Cameroon | 170 | 1:122,171 | 13,957 |
| Benin | 43 | 1:240,363 | 21,480 |
| Niger | 25 | 1:767,681 | 17,983 |
| DR Congo | 21 | 1:3,518,075 | 145,665 |
| France | 4 | 1:16,605,680 | 368,153 |
| Sierra Leone | 4 | 1:1,772,408 | 958 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Northern Ireland | 1 | 1:1,845,036 | 20,648 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
The alternate forms: Tchalé (2) are calculated separately.
Tchale (254) may also be a first name.
Tchale Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tchale Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Tchale occurs in Malawi more than any other country or territory. It can be found as a variant: Tchalé. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Tchale? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 114,732nd most widespread family name internationally, borne by around 1 in 1,809,222 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Tchale are found; 81 percent are found in Southern Africa and 81 percent are found in South Bantu Africa. Tchale is also the 559,024th most frequently held given name world-wide, held by 254 people.
The surname is most prevalent in Malawi, where it is borne by 3,268 people, or 1 in 5,238. Outside of Malawi this surname occurs in 18 countries. It is also found in Chad, where 12 percent live and Cameroon, 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
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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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