Tchoya Surname
Approximately 478 people bear this surname
Tchoya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 340 | 1:61,085 | 7,823 |
| Malawi | 131 | 1:130,680 | 14,293 |
| Angola | 4 | 1:6,747,304 | 6,999 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
Tchoya (11) may also be a first name.
Tchoya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tchoya Come From? nationality or country of origin
Tchoya (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺷﻮﻳﻪ) occurs in Cameroon more than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Tchoya.
How Common Is The Last Name Tchoya? popularity and diffusion
It is the 637,196th most common surname in the world. It is borne by around 1 in 15,245,912 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Tchoya live; 71 percent live in Central Africa and 71 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. Tchoya is also the 3,487,849th most widely held first name internationally, borne by 11 people.
The last name is most frequently occurring in Cameroon, where it is held by 340 people, or 1 in 61,085. In Cameroon Tchoya is most numerous in: Centre Region, where 43 percent live, Littoral Region, where 42 percent live and West Region, where 11 percent live. Barring Cameroon it occurs in 5 countries. It also occurs in Malawi, where 27 percent live and Angola, where 1 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Tchoya Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Tchoya in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺷﻮﻳﻪ | shwyh | - |
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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 Tchoya
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