El Qafaf Surname
Approximately 1,621 people bear this surname
El Qafaf Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yemen | 1,476 | 1:17,903 | 1,940 |
| Jordan | 143 | 1:61,835 | 5,606 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Palestine | 1 | 1:4,548,849 | 18,388 |
El Qafaf Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name El Qafaf Come From? nationality or country of origin
El Qafaf is found most frequently in Yemen. It may occur as:. For other potential spellings of El Qafaf click here.
How Common Is The Last Name El Qafaf? popularity and diffusion
The surname El Qafaf is the 245,548th most widely held surname in the world, held by around 1 in 4,495,710 people. The last name El Qafaf is mostly found in Asia, where 100 percent of El Qafaf are found; 100 percent are found in West Asia and 91 percent are found in Arabian Peninsula.
El Qafaf is most frequently used in Yemen, where it is borne by 1,476 people, or 1 in 17,903. In Yemen El Qafaf is primarily found in: 'Amran Governorate, where 82 percent are found, Dhamar Governorate, where 7 percent are found and Taiz Governorate, where 6 percent are found. Barring Yemen this last name occurs in 3 countries. It also occurs in Jordan, where 9 percent are found and Kuwait, where 0 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Qahafaf | 89 | 1 | / |
| El Kafaf | 88 | 15 | / |
| El Kafafi | 82 | 446 | / |
| El Kafafy | 82 | 14 | / |
| El Kaffaf | 82 | 1 | / |
| El Khafafa | 78 | 1 | / |
| Elkafafy | 75 | 461 | / |
| El Kafif | 75 | 3 | / |
| Elkafafi | 75 | 2 | / |
| Al Kafaf | 75 | 1 | / |
| El Khafif | 71 | 429 | / |
| Al Khafaf | 71 | 22 | / |
| Al Kafafi | 71 | 11 | / |
| Al Qafifi | 71 | 5 | / |
| El-Kafafy | 71 | 1 | / |
| El Kaffef | 71 | 1 | / |
| Al Aqfafi | 71 | 1 | / |
| El'kafafi | 71 | 1 | / |
| El Khafifi | 67 | 137 | / |
| Al Khafafa | 67 | 80 | / |
| Al Khaffaf | 67 | 12 | / |
| Elkfafy | 67 | 9 | / |
| Elkhafaifi | 67 | 3 | / |
| Al Khafafi | 67 | 3 | / |
| El Khfaifi | 67 | 3 | / |
| El Khufayf | 67 | 1 | / |
| El Kaffefi | 67 | 1 | / |
| El Goufafi | 67 | 1 | / |
| Al Ghaffaf | 67 | 1 | / |
| Al Kfaf | 67 | 1 | / |
| El Ghafouf | 67 | 1 | / |
| El Ghafify | 67 | 1 | / |
| El Kfif | 67 | 1 | / |
| Elkafif | 67 | 1 | / |
| Al Khafaaf | 67 | 1 | / |
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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 El Qafaf
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