Banafar Surname

677,464th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 440 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
India
Highest density in:
India

Banafar Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Banafar Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
India4301:1,783,87363,578
Iran81:9,597,816173,045
United States21:181,229,4661,556,795

Banafar (170) may also be a first name.

Banafar Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Banafar Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Banafar (Hindi: बनाफर, Marathi: बनाफर) is found most frequently in India. It can be found as a variant:. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Banafar? popularity and diffusion

Banafar is the 677,464th most commonly used family name on a worldwide basis, held by around 1 in 16,562,604 people. The last name Banafar occurs mostly in Asia, where 100 percent of Banafar live; 100 percent live in South Asia and 98 percent live in Indo-South Asia. Banafar is also the 701,320th most frequent forename world-wide, borne by 170 people.

This last name is most commonly occurring in India, where it is held by 430 people, or 1 in 1,783,873. In India Banafar is primarily found in: Maharashtra, where 89 percent are found, Uttar Pradesh, where 4 percent are found and Madhya Pradesh, where 3 percent are found. Beside India it occurs in 2 countries. It also occurs in Iran, where 2 percent are found and The United States, where 0 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

Banafar Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Banafar in the Hindi language
बनाफरbanaphara98.97
बनाफारbanaphara1.03
Banafar in the Marathi language
बनाफरbanaphara91.62
बानाफरbanaphara3.76
बनाफारbanaphara2.05
बनफरbanaphara1.03
बणाफरbanaphara0.68
बनाकरbanakara0.34
बनफारbanaphara0.34
बनोफरbanophara0.17

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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 Banafar
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