Arofa Surname
Approximately 616 people bear this surname
Arofa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 526 | 1:251,424 | 22,929 |
| Papua New Guinea | 43 | 1:189,621 | 26,314 |
| Solomon Islands | 35 | 1:16,572 | 3,167 |
| Bangladesh | 4 | 1:39,839,193 | 17,324 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Arofa (1,189) may also be a first name.
Arofa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Arofa Come From? nationality or country of origin
Arofa (Hindi: अरोफा, Russian: Арофа) is carried by more people in Indonesia than any other country or territory. It may also occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of Arofa.
How Common Is The Last Name Arofa? popularity and diffusion
Arofa is the 526,285th most commonly used last name globally, held by approximately 1 in 11,830,432 people. This last name occurs mostly in Asia, where 87 percent of Arofa are found; 86 percent are found in Southeast Asia and 86 percent are found in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia. It is also the 229,946th most frequently used first name globally, held by 1,189 people.
It is most common in Indonesia, where it is carried by 526 people, or 1 in 251,424. In Indonesia Arofa is most frequent in: East Java, where 40 percent are found, Jakarta, where 18 percent are found and Central Java, where 16 percent are found. Beside Indonesia this last name exists in 9 countries. It is also common in Papua New Guinea, where 7 percent are found and The Solomon Islands, where 6 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Arofa Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Arofa in the Hindi language | ||
| अरोफा | aropha | - |
| Arofa in the Russian language | ||
| Арофа | arofa | - |
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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 Arofa
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