Bouhafer Surname

268,717th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 1,452 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Algeria
Highest density in:
Algeria

Bouhafer Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Bouhafer Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Algeria1,4441:26,7534,869
Morocco41:8,619,02573,251
France31:22,140,907385,998
Tunisia11:610,62630,336

Bouhafer Last Name Facts

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

The surname Bouhafer is held by more people in Algeria than any other country or territory. It can occur in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Bouhafer? popularity and diffusion

It is the 268,717th most numerous family name world-wide, borne by approximately 1 in 5,018,971 people. It occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Bouhafer live; 100 percent live in North Africa and 100 percent live in Mahgreb.

This surname is most numerous in Algeria, where it is borne by 1,444 people, or 1 in 26,753. In Algeria Bouhafer is primarily found in: Skikda Province, where 76 percent live, Chlef Province, where 12 percent live and Mila Province, where 7 percent live. Apart from Algeria this last name exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in Morocco, where 0 percent live and France, where 0 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

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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 Bouhafer
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