Afa Surname
Approximately 24,455 people bear this surname
Afa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eritrea | 19,930 | 1:238 | 93 |
| Nigeria | 828 | 1:213,941 | 12,710 |
| Morocco | 818 | 1:42,147 | 6,853 |
| Egypt | 702 | 1:130,963 | 10,408 |
| Indonesia | 385 | 1:343,504 | 29,814 |
| Cameroon | 246 | 1:84,427 | 10,261 |
| Saudi Arabia | 239 | 1:129,104 | 17,726 |
| Afghanistan | 149 | 1:215,793 | 3,934 |
| Iran | 119 | 1:645,231 | 34,926 |
| France | 104 | 1:638,680 | 83,098 |
| Poland | 87 | 1:436,882 | 45,306 |
| Vietnam | 84 | 1:1,102,929 | 1,930 |
| United States | 72 | 1:5,034,152 | 256,679 |
| Papua New Guinea | 71 | 1:114,841 | 15,585 |
| DR Congo | 55 | 1:1,343,265 | 79,223 |
| Brazil | 47 | 1:4,554,773 | 120,089 |
| Cuba | 36 | 1:320,075 | 5,584 |
| Turkey | 36 | 1:2,161,706 | 72,332 |
| Malaysia | 35 | 1:842,692 | 38,700 |
| Benin | 30 | 1:344,520 | 26,827 |
| Ecuador | 30 | 1:530,195 | 11,121 |
| New Zealand | 28 | 1:161,726 | 18,041 |
| Portugal | 28 | 1:372,080 | 12,265 |
| Peru | 24 | 1:1,324,338 | 21,383 |
| Maldives | 24 | 1:16,840 | 1,162 |
| Niger | 23 | 1:834,436 | 19,133 |
| Solomon Islands | 21 | 1:27,620 | 5,477 |
| Ivory Coast | 19 | 1:1,214,275 | 27,625 |
| India | 18 | 1:42,614,743 | 461,117 |
| Australia | 17 | 1:1,587,982 | 78,599 |
| Sweden | 14 | 1:703,340 | 52,204 |
| Tanzania | 12 | 1:4,411,801 | 54,433 |
| Burkina Faso | 11 | 1:1,668,373 | 13,584 |
| Mauritania | 10 | 1:409,486 | 16,302 |
| Pakistan | 10 | 1:17,864,388 | 68,137 |
| Qatar | 9 | 1:262,000 | 30,726 |
| Ghana | 9 | 1:3,002,299 | 11,581 |
| American Samoa | 8 | 1:6,970 | 1,431 |
| United Arab Emirates | 8 | 1:1,145,284 | 40,289 |
| Thailand | 5 | 1:14,127,669 | 603,945 |
| Spain | 5 | 1:9,350,407 | 109,555 |
| Mexico | 4 | 1:31,031,551 | 63,627 |
| Togo | 4 | 1:1,811,942 | 8,122 |
| Kuwait | 4 | 1:950,174 | 18,811 |
| Italy | 4 | 1:15,289,172 | 132,955 |
| China | 3 | 1:455,773,855 | 21,925 |
| Canada | 3 | 1:12,281,864 | 364,614 |
| Chile | 3 | 1:5,872,158 | 52,204 |
| Germany | 3 | 1:26,835,153 | 452,368 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Taiwan | 1 | 1:23,444,746 | 93,622 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Yemen | 1 | 1:26,425,294 | 55,147 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Palestine | 1 | 1:4,548,849 | 18,388 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Nepal | 1 | 1:28,480,956 | 22,413 |
| Jordan | 1 | 1:8,842,437 | 26,010 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| El Salvador | 1 | 1:6,343,888 | 8,415 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1:159,356,773 | 26,077 |
| Azerbaijan | 1 | 1:9,649,122 | 47,873 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
The alternate forms: Afá (2) are calculated separately.
Afa (9,477) may also be a first name.
Afa Demographics
Average Afa Salary in
United States
$35,605 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Afa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Afa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Afa (Arabic: فا, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺁﻑ, Hindi: आफा) is more frequently found in Eritrea than any other country or territory. It may appear as a variant: Afá. For other potential spellings of Afa click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Afa? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 22,236th most numerous last name worldwide It is held by approximately 1 in 297,998 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 93 percent of Afa reside; 82 percent reside in East Africa and 82 percent reside in Ethiosemitic Africa. It is also the 63,526th most widely held first name in the world It is held by 9,477 people.
The surname Afa is most prevalent in Eritrea, where it is carried by 19,930 people, or 1 in 238. Without taking into account Eritrea it is found in 68 countries. It is also common in Nigeria, where 3 percent live and Morocco, where 3 percent live.
Afa Last Name Statistics demography
The amount Afa earn in different countries varies greatly. In Italy they earn 33.12% more than the national average, earning €39,975 per year; in Peru they earn 55.33% more than the national average, earning S/. 30,110 per year and in United States they earn 17.48% less than the national average, earning $35,605 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Afa Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Afa in the Hindi language | ||
| आफा | apha | 52 |
| अफा | apha | 48 |
| Afa in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺁﻑ | af | 28.57 |
| ﻋﻔﻪ | fh | 14.29 |
| ﻋﻔﺔ | ft | 14.29 |
| ﺍﻓﻪ | afh | 14.29 |
| ﺃﻓﺎ | afa | 14.29 |
| ﻋﻔﻰ | fy | 14.29 |
| Afa in the Arabic language | ||
| فا | fa | - |
| أفا | afa | - |
| عفا | fa | - |
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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 Afa
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