Cheema Surname
Approximately 57,581 people bear this surname
Cheema Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pakistan | 31,555 | 1:5,661 | 516 |
| India | 6,670 | 1:115,002 | 7,484 |
| Sudan | 3,920 | 1:9,569 | 1,352 |
| Saudi Arabia | 3,458 | 1:8,923 | 1,241 |
| England | 2,855 | 1:19,516 | 2,791 |
| Canada | 2,740 | 1:13,447 | 1,986 |
| United States | 2,669 | 1:135,803 | 14,220 |
| United Arab Emirates | 1,069 | 1:8,571 | 1,070 |
| Australia | 457 | 1:59,072 | 7,169 |
| Spain | 356 | 1:131,326 | 9,990 |
| Kuwait | 318 | 1:11,952 | 1,632 |
| Germany | 200 | 1:402,527 | 37,103 |
| Oman | 170 | 1:21,694 | 1,938 |
| Bahrain | 132 | 1:10,217 | 1,962 |
| Hong Kong | 127 | 1:57,760 | 1,031 |
| Qatar | 94 | 1:25,085 | 2,628 |
| South Africa | 93 | 1:582,556 | 44,854 |
| Malaysia | 68 | 1:433,739 | 22,323 |
| New Zealand | 64 | 1:70,755 | 10,593 |
| Greece | 54 | 1:205,181 | 32,420 |
| Sweden | 48 | 1:205,141 | 14,201 |
| Singapore | 43 | 1:128,086 | 5,748 |
| Scotland | 43 | 1:124,507 | 7,876 |
| Italy | 33 | 1:1,853,233 | 86,897 |
| Belgium | 33 | 1:348,383 | 38,592 |
| Iraq | 31 | 1:1,129,731 | 13,630 |
| Denmark | 31 | 1:182,088 | 15,299 |
| Thailand | 31 | 1:2,278,656 | 255,572 |
| Dominican Republic | 23 | 1:453,606 | 14,824 |
| Austria | 21 | 1:405,497 | 41,758 |
| Norway | 19 | 1:270,647 | 28,127 |
| Netherlands | 14 | 1:1,206,227 | 70,951 |
| Japan | 10 | 1:12,784,429 | 45,945 |
| China | 9 | 1:151,924,618 | 7,954 |
| Switzerland | 8 | 1:1,026,614 | 63,315 |
| Wales | 6 | 1:515,755 | 23,171 |
| Zambia | 6 | 1:2,641,654 | 34,188 |
| Chile | 6 | 1:2,936,079 | 35,997 |
| Poland | 5 | 1:7,601,750 | 167,855 |
| South Korea | 5 | 1:10,248,051 | 1,694 |
| Kenya | 5 | 1:9,235,980 | 55,978 |
| Somalia | 4 | 1:3,363,015 | 5,093 |
| Kazakhstan | 4 | 1:4,420,624 | 134,293 |
| Philippines | 4 | 1:25,309,556 | 279,062 |
| Russia | 4 | 1:36,030,764 | 577,589 |
| Samoa | 4 | 1:48,452 | 659 |
| Egypt | 4 | 1:22,983,938 | 62,368 |
| Uganda | 3 | 1:13,013,093 | 160,157 |
| Palestine | 3 | 1:1,516,283 | 17,268 |
| Northern Ireland | 3 | 1:615,012 | 18,081 |
| Brazil | 3 | 1:71,358,111 | 770,017 |
| Colombia | 3 | 1:15,924,691 | 28,711 |
| Cyprus | 3 | 1:294,959 | 8,690 |
| France | 3 | 1:22,140,907 | 385,998 |
| Ireland | 2 | 1:2,354,470 | 19,715 |
| Afghanistan | 2 | 1:16,076,592 | 43,178 |
| Argentina | 2 | 1:21,371,707 | 253,176 |
| Finland | 2 | 1:2,748,351 | 72,663 |
| Malta | 1 | 1:430,272 | 3,380 |
| Northern Cyprus | 1 | 1:319,011 | 10,202 |
| Mozambique | 1 | 1:27,261,569 | 7,432 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Armenia | 1 | 1:2,930,180 | 22,770 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1:159,356,773 | 26,077 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | 1 | 1:34,329 | 862 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Syria | 1 | 1:19,301,022 | 22,457 |
| Bermuda | 1 | 1:65,279 | 3,010 |
| Botswana | 1 | 1:2,186,929 | 30,250 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Sri Lanka | 1 | 1:20,808,560 | 18,521 |
| Brunei | 1 | 1:418,731 | 3,893 |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 1:6,978,905 | 86,260 |
| Palau | 1 | 1:21,643 | 223 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 1:5,637,083 | 32,436 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Falkland Islands | 1 | 1:3,132 | 317 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| Jamaica | 1 | 1:2,869,947 | 13,896 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
Cheema (3,525) may also be a first name.
Cheema Demographics
Average Cheema Salary in
United States
$51,653 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Cheema Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Cheema Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Cheema (Arabic: تشيما, Hindi: चीमा) is found most in Pakistan. It can also be rendered as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Cheema? popularity and diffusion
The surname Cheema is the 9,807th most numerous surname globally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 126,562 people. The surname is primarily found in Asia, where 76 percent of Cheema live; 66 percent live in South Asia and 55 percent live in Islamic South Asia. Cheema is also the 119,456th most numerous first name world-wide. It is borne by 3,525 people.
The last name Cheema is most widespread in Pakistan, where it is held by 31,555 people, or 1 in 5,661. In Pakistan it is most prevalent in: Punjab, where 85 percent live, Sindh, where 7 percent live and Islamabad Capital Territory, where 5 percent live. Barring Pakistan Cheema occurs in 86 countries. It is also found in India, where 12 percent live and Sudan, where 7 percent live.
Cheema Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Cheema last name are 5.36% more likely to be registered Republicans than the national average, with 52.13% being registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Cheema earn in different countries varies markedly. In Norway they earn 8.05% less than the national average, earning 318,205 kr per year; in South Africa they earn 26.8% less than the national average, earning R 173,940 per year; in United States they earn 19.71% more than the national average, earning $51,653 USD per year and in Canada they earn 11.14% more than the national average, earning $55,216 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Cheema Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Cheema in the Hindi language | ||
| चीमा | cima | 89.47 |
| चेमा | cema | 8.77 |
| छीमा | chima | 1.75 |
| Cheema in the Arabic language | ||
| تشيما | tshyma | - |
| شيما | shyma | - |
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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 Cheema
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