Baafa Surname
Approximately 389 people bear this surname
Baafa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 376 | 1:196,488 | 19,671 |
| Uganda | 8 | 1:4,879,910 | 106,546 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Baafa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Baafa Come From? nationality or country of origin
Baafa occurs more in The DR Congo more than any other country/territory. It may appear in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Baafa? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 741,235th most frequently used last name worldwide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 18,734,051 people. The last name Baafa occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Baafa reside; 97 percent reside in Central Africa and 97 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa.
The surname is most widely held in The DR Congo, where it is carried by 376 people, or 1 in 196,488. Beside The DR Congo Baafa exists in 6 countries. It is also common in Uganda, where 2 percent are found and Ghana, where 0 percent are found.
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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 Baafa
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