Afarani Surname

6,723,624th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 8 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
India
Highest density in:
Lebanon

Afarani Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Afarani Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
India51:153,413,076951,030
Brazil11:214,074,3321,693,628
Canada11:36,845,591464,108
Lebanon11:5,637,08332,436

Afarani (23) may also be a first name.

Afarani Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Afarani Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Afarani (Hindi: अफरानी, Marathi: आफरानी) is most common in India. It can occur as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Afarani? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 6,723,624th most widespread last name worldwide It is held by around 1 in 910,943,240 people. The surname occurs mostly in Asia, where 75 percent of Afarani live; 63 percent live in South Asia and 63 percent live in Indo-South Asia. It is also the 2,239,265th most widely held first name globally, held by 23 people.

The surname is most prevalent in India, where it is borne by 5 people, or 1 in 153,413,076. In India it is most numerous in: Uttar Pradesh, where 80 percent live and Bihar, where 20 percent live. Besides India this surname occurs in 3 countries. It is also common in Brazil, where 13 percent live and Canada, where 13 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Asfarani9348/
Aafarani936/
Gaffarani881/
Afarana8611/
Afarane861/
Afaranj861/
OFarani861/
Ajfarahani821/
Affaroni802/
Afarrane802/
Afargane801/
Gaforani801/
Gafoorani751/
Afaronj715/
Ousfarane631/

Afarani Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Afarani in the Hindi language
अफरानीapharani61.54
आफरानीapharani30.77
अफरानिapharani7.69
Afarani in the Marathi language
आफरानीapharani50
मखरानीmakharani50

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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
  • Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
  • 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 Afarani
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