Anafe Surname
Approximately 269 people bear this surname
Anafe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 253 | 1:700,169 | 32,315 |
| Brazil | 9 | 1:23,786,037 | 375,389 |
| Papua New Guinea | 3 | 1:2,717,906 | 153,458 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
Anafe (3,085) may also be a first name.
Anafe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Anafe Come From? nationality or country of origin
Anafe (Arabic: انفه) is found most frequently in Nigeria. It can appear as:. Click here for further potential spellings of Anafe.
How Common Is The Last Name Anafe? popularity and diffusion
The surname Anafe is the 966,131st most commonly held last name at a global level It is held by approximately 1 in 27,091,249 people. The surname is primarily found in Africa, where 94 percent of Anafe are found; 94 percent are found in West Africa and 94 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 129,881st most numerous first name at a global level, held by 3,085 people.
This last name is most commonly occurring in Nigeria, where it is held by 253 people, or 1 in 700,169. In Nigeria Anafe is most frequent in: Cross River, where 72 percent are found, Benue, where 6 percent are found and Lagos, where 6 percent are found. Besides Nigeria this last name is found in 5 countries. It also occurs in Brazil, where 3 percent are found and Papua New Guinea, where 1 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Anafe Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Anafe in the Arabic language | ||
| انفه | anfh | - |
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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 Anafe
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