Afarah Surname
Approximately 700 people bear this surname
Afarah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iran | 666 | 1:115,289 | 10,911 |
| Pakistan | 18 | 1:9,924,660 | 48,309 |
| Sweden | 5 | 1:1,969,351 | 134,077 |
| Morocco | 4 | 1:8,619,025 | 73,251 |
| Yemen | 2 | 1:13,212,647 | 40,633 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
Afarah (116) may also be a first name.
Afarah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Afarah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Afarah (Arabic: افره, Hindi: अफराह, Marathi: अफराह) is borne by more people in Iran than any other country or territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Afarah click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Afarah? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 477,400th most frequently held family name on a global scale. It is borne by approximately 1 in 10,410,780 people. The last name Afarah is mostly found in Asia, where 98 percent of Afarah live; 98 percent live in South Asia and 98 percent live in Islamic South Asia. It is also the 868,627th most widely held forename world-wide. It is borne by 116 people.
The last name is most commonly occurring in Iran, where it is held by 666 people, or 1 in 115,289. In Iran Afarah is primarily concentrated in: Hormozgan Province, where 30 percent reside, Kerman Province, where 10 percent reside and Fars Province, where 10 percent reside. Excluding Iran Afarah exists in 9 countries. It is also found in Pakistan, where 3 percent reside and Sweden, where 1 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Afarah Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Afarah in the Marathi language | ||
| अफराह | apharaha | - |
| Afarah in the Hindi language | ||
| अफराह | apharaha | 85.71 |
| आफरह | apharaha | 14.29 |
| Afarah in the Arabic language | ||
| افره | afrh | - |
| آفره | afrh | - |
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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 Afarah
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