Afen Surname
Approximately 1,023 people bear this surname
Afen Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 929 | 1:190,681 | 11,566 |
| Indonesia | 56 | 1:2,361,593 | 141,864 |
| Cameroon | 12 | 1:1,730,756 | 92,157 |
| Malaysia | 8 | 1:3,686,778 | 134,908 |
| Somalia | 4 | 1:3,363,015 | 5,093 |
| China | 2 | 1:683,660,783 | 30,601 |
| Germany | 2 | 1:40,252,730 | 481,636 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| Thailand | 2 | 1:35,319,172 | 966,191 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
Afen (1,547) may also be a first name.
Afen Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Afen Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Afen has its highest incidence in Nigeria. It can also be rendered as a variant:. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Afen? popularity and diffusion
The surname Afen is the 355,394th most frequently held family name on earth, borne by around 1 in 7,123,701 people. The last name Afen is mostly found in Africa, where 92 percent of Afen live; 91 percent live in West Africa and 91 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 197,070th most widely held first name in the world. It is borne by 1,547 people.
It is most frequently held in Nigeria, where it is held by 929 people, or 1 in 190,681. In Nigeria Afen is mostly found in: Cross River, where 63 percent reside, Benue, where 6 percent reside and Ondo, where 6 percent reside. Beside Nigeria it is found in 13 countries. It is also found in Indonesia, where 5 percent reside and Cameroon, where 1 percent reside.
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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 Afen
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