Faba Surname
Approximately 5,732 people bear this surname
Faba Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chad | 1,637 | 1:8,303 | 1,149 |
| Brazil | 1,100 | 1:194,613 | 7,508 |
| South Africa | 937 | 1:57,820 | 7,330 |
| Spain | 473 | 1:98,842 | 8,114 |
| Argentina | 248 | 1:172,352 | 14,479 |
| Lesotho | 209 | 1:9,725 | 2,203 |
| Philippines | 171 | 1:592,036 | 64,746 |
| Poland | 151 | 1:251,714 | 31,602 |
| Mexico | 122 | 1:1,017,428 | 13,258 |
| United States | 113 | 1:3,207,601 | 184,423 |
| Cameroon | 71 | 1:292,522 | 27,501 |
| DR Congo | 55 | 1:1,343,265 | 79,223 |
| France | 50 | 1:1,328,454 | 133,611 |
| Chile | 45 | 1:391,477 | 10,650 |
| Nigeria | 42 | 1:4,217,685 | 117,088 |
| Cuba | 38 | 1:303,229 | 5,351 |
| Costa Rica | 37 | 1:129,191 | 1,972 |
| Papua New Guinea | 35 | 1:232,963 | 32,024 |
| Indonesia | 24 | 1:5,510,383 | 253,014 |
| Italy | 21 | 1:2,912,223 | 98,106 |
| Iran | 20 | 1:3,839,126 | 105,129 |
| Australia | 18 | 1:1,499,761 | 75,721 |
| Canada | 18 | 1:2,046,977 | 128,463 |
| Ivory Coast | 15 | 1:1,538,082 | 31,691 |
| Mauritania | 13 | 1:314,989 | 13,616 |
| England | 11 | 1:5,065,278 | 148,650 |
| Zimbabwe | 10 | 1:1,543,824 | 78,460 |
| Taiwan | 7 | 1:3,349,249 | 20,155 |
| Netherlands | 7 | 1:2,412,454 | 94,797 |
| Thailand | 4 | 1:17,659,586 | 685,799 |
| Romania | 4 | 1:5,019,468 | 62,922 |
| Afghanistan | 3 | 1:10,717,728 | 35,605 |
| Russia | 3 | 1:48,041,019 | 639,186 |
| Slovakia | 2 | 1:2,668,225 | 118,680 |
| Benin | 2 | 1:5,167,801 | 84,334 |
| Colombia | 2 | 1:23,887,036 | 32,612 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Norway | 2 | 1:2,571,143 | 95,402 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
The alternate forms: Fába (31), Fabà (8) & Fabá (2) are calculated separately.
Faba (1,406) may also be a first name.
Faba Demographics
Average Faba Salary in
United States
$44,596 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Faba Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Faba Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Faba (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻓﺎﺑﺎ, Hindi: फाबा, Russian: Фаба) is held by more people in Chad than any other country or territory. It can appear in the variant forms: Fába, Fabà or Fabá. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Faba? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 84,310th most frequently used family name at a global level. It is borne by approximately 1 in 1,271,379 people. It is mostly found in Africa, where 52 percent of Faba reside; 30 percent reside in West Africa and 29 percent reside in Chadic Africa. It is also the 208,413th most frequently used forename world-wide It is held by 1,406 people.
The surname is most widely held in Chad, where it is carried by 1,637 people, or 1 in 8,303. Other than Chad this surname exists in 47 countries. It is also common in Brazil, where 19 percent live and South Africa, where 16 percent live.
Faba Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Faba surname are 7.88% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than The US average, with 61.11% being registered to vote for the party.
The amount Faba earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 44.53% less than the national average, earning R 131,808 per year; in United States they earn 3.35% more than the national average, earning $44,596 USD per year and in Canada they earn 20.47% more than the national average, earning $59,854 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Faba Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faba in the Hindi language | ||
| फाबा | phaba | - |
| Faba in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻓﺎﺑﺎ | faba | 85.71 |
| ﻓﺎﺏ | fab | 14.29 |
| Faba in the Russian language | ||
| Фаба | faba | - |
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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 Faba
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