Amafon Surname
Approximately 59 people bear this surname
Amafon Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 58 | 1:397,780 | 13,651 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
Amafon (21) may also be a first name.
Amafon Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Amafon Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Amafon occurs most in The Ivory Coast. It may also be rendered as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Amafon? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 2,506,728th most commonly used surname on a worldwide basis, borne by around 1 in 123,517,727 people. The last name Amafon occurs predominantly in Africa, where 59 percent of Amafon live; 59 percent live in West Africa and 59 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 2,368,944th most frequently used forename in the world, borne by 21 people.
This surname is most commonly held in The Ivory Coast, where it is carried by 58 people, or 1 in 397,780. In The Ivory Coast Amafon is most numerous in: Lagunes District, where 55 percent live, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 41 percent live and Bas-Sassandra District, where 3 percent live. Barring The Ivory Coast Amafon occurs in one country. It is also found in Nigeria, where 2 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amaffon | 92 | 39 | / |
| Amafoun | 92 | 1 | / |
| Amafan | 83 | 16 | / |
| Amefon | 83 | 5 | / |
| Amafune | 77 | 11 | / |
| Hamafan | 77 | 2 | / |
| Gomafon | 77 | 1 | / |
| Amatphon | 71 | 333 | / |
| Ammaphon | 71 | 1 | / |
| Amefounn | 71 | 1 | / |
| Ameafune | 71 | 1 | / |
| Omofon | 67 | 3 | / |
| Omafun | 67 | 3 | / |
| Emefon | 67 | 2 | / |
| Amhasfand | 67 | 2 | / |
| Amoufoung | 67 | 1 | / |
| Emofon | 67 | 1 | / |
| Ahameafune | 63 | 2 | / |
| Omoifon | 62 | 2 | / |
| Amuofun | 62 | 2 | / |
| Ahmoudfoune | 59 | 1 | / |
| Hemaphon | 57 | 166 | / |
| Amosfand | 57 | 25 | / |
| Otmaphon | 57 | 15 | / |
| Ammaphan | 57 | 9 | / |
| Ammaphun | 57 | 4 | / |
| Atmaphan | 57 | 4 | / |
| Hamaphan | 57 | 1 | / |
| Ammaphunt | 53 | 5 | / |
| Hammaphan | 53 | 2 | / |
| Haemaphan | 53 | 1 | / |
| Haemophan | 53 | 1 | / |
| Amofam | 50 | 2 | / |
| Heammaphun | 50 | 1 | / |
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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 Amafon
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