Areefa Surname
Approximately 130 people bear this surname
Areefa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 68 | 1:11,280,373 | 208,492 |
| Maldives | 58 | 1:6,968 | 589 |
| Malaysia | 2 | 1:14,747,112 | 316,340 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1:159,356,773 | 26,077 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Areefa (1,336) may also be a first name.
Areefa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Areefa Come From? nationality or country of origin
Areefa (Hindi: आरेफा) is found most frequently in India. It can also appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Areefa? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,573,888th most widespread surname throughout the world, held by approximately 1 in 56,058,046 people. The surname Areefa is primarily found in Asia, where 99 percent of Areefa live; 98 percent live in South Asia and 52 percent live in Indo-South Asia. Areefa is also the 214,855th most commonly used first name globally, held by 1,336 people.
Areefa is most commonly occurring in India, where it is held by 68 people, or 1 in 11,280,373. In India it is mostly found in: Telangana, where 62 percent live, Andhra Pradesh, where 28 percent live and Kerala, where 10 percent live. Aside from India this last name exists in 4 countries. It is also found in The Maldives, where 45 percent live and Malaysia, where 2 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Areefa Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Areefa in the Hindi language | ||
| आरेफा | arepha | - |
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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 Areefa
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