Tchewa Surname
Approximately 247 people bear this surname
Tchewa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 124 | 1:167,492 | 17,964 |
| Benin | 60 | 1:172,260 | 17,125 |
| Ivory Coast | 58 | 1:397,780 | 13,651 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
Tchewa (1,662) may also be a first name.
Tchewa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tchewa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Tchewa is found most in Cameroon. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Tchewa click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Tchewa? popularity and diffusion
The surname Tchewa is the 1,022,958th most commonly held family name throughout the world It is held by approximately 1 in 29,504,234 people. The last name Tchewa occurs mostly in Africa, where 95 percent of Tchewa are found; 50 percent are found in Central Africa and 50 percent are found in Central Bantu Africa. Tchewa is also the 188,896th most frequently held first name on earth It is held by 1,662 people.
The surname is most widespread in Cameroon, where it is borne by 124 people, or 1 in 167,492. In Cameroon it is most common in: Littoral Region, where 35 percent live, Centre Region, where 32 percent live and West Region, where 23 percent live. Beside Cameroon Tchewa exists in 6 countries. It is also found in Benin, where 24 percent live and The Ivory Coast, where 23 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
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Tchewa
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