Chirwa

Chichewa

Etymology

From Tumbuka.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃí.ɽʷa/

Proper noun

Chírwa

1. a surname from Tumbuka

Statistics

According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Chirwa was the 5th most common surname in Malawi (141 809 persons = 0.8 percent of the population) and the 30th most common surname in Zambia (46 379 persons = 0.3 percent of the population).