Afia Surname
Approximately 19,695 people bear this surname
Afia Surname User-submission:
This surname comes from the word afia, which means 'health' in Arabic and 'fire' in the Moroccan dialect.
Afia Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bangladesh | 5,497 | 1:28,990 | 1,885 |
| Nigeria | 3,534 | 1:50,125 | 3,837 |
| Egypt | 3,508 | 1:26,207 | 2,927 |
| Ghana | 1,732 | 1:15,601 | 2,007 |
| Morocco | 920 | 1:37,474 | 6,047 |
| Algeria | 823 | 1:46,940 | 8,203 |
| Indonesia | 700 | 1:188,927 | 18,083 |
| Chad | 578 | 1:23,516 | 2,818 |
| Saudi Arabia | 517 | 1:59,682 | 8,852 |
| DR Congo | 410 | 1:180,194 | 18,301 |
| Cameroon | 316 | 1:65,725 | 8,325 |
| Malawi | 314 | 1:54,519 | 7,527 |
| Solomon Islands | 236 | 1:2,458 | 226 |
| Spain | 138 | 1:338,783 | 19,630 |
| England | 69 | 1:807,508 | 43,459 |
| Pakistan | 62 | 1:2,881,353 | 23,780 |
| Kuwait | 48 | 1:79,181 | 9,331 |
| India | 48 | 1:15,980,529 | 256,885 |
| United States | 38 | 1:9,538,393 | 399,091 |
| Papua New Guinea | 23 | 1:354,509 | 47,011 |
| Israel | 21 | 1:407,506 | 32,346 |
| Uganda | 18 | 1:2,168,849 | 67,754 |
| Burkina Faso | 11 | 1:1,668,373 | 13,584 |
| Togo | 9 | 1:805,308 | 6,372 |
| United Arab Emirates | 9 | 1:1,018,030 | 36,884 |
| Ethiopia | 9 | 1:10,838,474 | 14,518 |
| Benin | 8 | 1:1,291,950 | 54,095 |
| Belgium | 7 | 1:1,642,378 | 98,400 |
| France | 7 | 1:9,488,960 | 336,266 |
| Iran | 6 | 1:12,797,087 | 199,837 |
| Ivory Coast | 6 | 1:3,845,205 | 48,272 |
| American Samoa | 6 | 1:9,293 | 1,961 |
| Wales | 6 | 1:515,755 | 23,171 |
| Qatar | 6 | 1:393,000 | 55,922 |
| Taiwan | 6 | 1:3,907,458 | 23,065 |
| Canada | 5 | 1:7,369,118 | 289,406 |
| Malaysia | 5 | 1:5,898,845 | 196,803 |
| Mozambique | 4 | 1:6,815,392 | 4,272 |
| Tunisia | 4 | 1:152,656 | 17,743 |
| Kenya | 4 | 1:11,544,975 | 62,419 |
| Scotland | 4 | 1:1,338,454 | 35,497 |
| Maldives | 3 | 1:134,724 | 4,057 |
| China | 2 | 1:683,660,783 | 30,601 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Sri Lanka | 1 | 1:20,808,560 | 18,521 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
Afia (115,869) may also be a first name.
Afia Surname Meaning
User-submitted Reference
This surname comes from the word afia, which means 'health' in Arabic and 'fire' in the Moroccan dialect.
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Afia Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Afia Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Afia Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Afia (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻋﺎﻓﻴﻪ, Hindi: आफिया, Oriya: ଆଫିଆ) is most common in Bangladesh. It can also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of Afia.
How Common Is The Last Name Afia? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 27,288th most commonly held surname internationally, held by around 1 in 370,020 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 62 percent of Afia live; 31 percent live in West Africa and 28 percent live in Islamic South Asia. Afia is also the 8,903rd most frequently occurring first name globally It is held by 115,869 people.
This last name is most common in Bangladesh, where it is borne by 5,497 people, or 1 in 28,990. Excluding Bangladesh Afia is found in 59 countries. It is also found in Nigeria, where 18 percent are found and Egypt, where 18 percent are found.
Afia Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those holding the last name is chiefly Christian (100%) in Kenya.
Afia earn notably less less than the average income. In United States they earn 15.27% less than the national average, earning $36,559 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Afia Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Afia in the Oriya language | ||
| ଆଫିଆ | aphi'a | - |
| Afia in the Hindi language | ||
| आफिया | aphiya | 83.33 |
| आफिआ | aphi'a | 16.67 |
| Afia in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻋﺎﻓﻴﻪ | afyh | 33.33 |
| ﻋﺎﻓﻲ | afy | 33.33 |
| ﺍﻟﻌﺎﻓﻴﺔ | alafyt | 33.33 |
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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
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- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Afia
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