Comforter Surname

6,723,624th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 8 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
Cameroon

Comforter Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Comforter Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nigeria71:25,306,108327,793
Cameroon11:20,769,068227,406
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States71:7,174,098302,835

Comforter (183) may also be a first name.

Comforter Last Name Facts

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

Comforter is found most frequently in Nigeria. It can be found as a variant:. For other possible spellings of Comforter click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Comforter? popularity and diffusion

The surname Comforter is the 6,723,624th most frequently occurring surname on a global scale, borne by approximately 1 in 910,943,240 people. The last name Comforter occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Comforter live; 88 percent live in West Africa and 88 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Comforter is also the 673,127th most frequently used given name globally, borne by 183 people.

The surname is most commonly used in Nigeria, where it is held by 7 people, or 1 in 25,306,108. In Nigeria Comforter is most frequent in: Lagos, where 43 percent reside, Oyo, where 43 percent reside and Rivers, where 14 percent reside. Excluding Nigeria this last name occurs in one country. It is also common in Cameroon, where 13 percent reside.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Comforte9433/
Conforte821,287/
Comforti82126/
Comforty8285/
Confortes7812/
Canforter780/
Conforti7115,531/
Konforte7134/
Komforti7121/
Conforty7116/
Komforty714/
Conforta711/
Confuorti6762/
Confortti6760/
Konfortes677/
Confortis674/
Confortty673/
Confortii672/
Confotrti671/
Gianforter631/
Konforti59142/
Konforta59100/
Konforty5938/
Canforti593/

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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
  • Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
  • 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 Comforter
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