Doffa Surname
Approximately 253 people bear this surname
Doffa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 149 | 1:355,313 | 26,378 |
| Benin | 98 | 1:105,465 | 11,876 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1:23,089,950 | 83,168 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Doffa (15) may also be a first name.
Doffa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Doffa Come From? nationality or country of origin
Doffa (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻟﺪﻭﻓﻪ, Russian: Доффа) occurs most in Tanzania. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Doffa? popularity and diffusion
Doffa is the 1,006,539th most frequently occurring family name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by approximately 1 in 28,804,529 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Doffa reside; 60 percent reside in East Africa and 59 percent reside in East Bantu Africa. It is also the 2,900,335th most frequently held first name in the world, borne by 15 people.
The surname Doffa is most widely held in Tanzania, where it is carried by 149 people, or 1 in 355,313. In Tanzania it is mostly found in: Manyara Region, where 100 percent live. Other than Tanzania this surname exists in 6 countries. It is also found in Benin, where 39 percent live and Kenya, where 1 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Doffa Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Doffa in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻟﺪﻭﻓﻪ | aldwfh | 50 |
| ﺍﻟﺪﻭﻑ | aldwf | 50 |
| Doffa in the Russian language | ||
| Доффа | doffa | - |
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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 Doffa
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