Folfa Surname

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

Approximately 8 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Romania
Highest density in:
Romania

Folfa Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

DNA test information

Folfa Surname Distribution Map

By incidenceBy frequencyBy rank
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Romania41:5,019,46862,922
Italy21:30,578,344160,757
Cameroon11:20,769,068227,406
Poland11:38,008,749231,653

The alternate forms: Folfă (95) are calculated separately.

Folfa Last Name Facts

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

Folfa is found in Romania more than any other country/territory. It may also appear as a variant: Folfă. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Folfa? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 6,723,624th most frequently occurring surname worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 910,943,240 people. The surname Folfa occurs predominantly in Europe, where 88 percent of Folfa are found; 63 percent are found in Eastern Europe and 50 percent are found in Romanian Europe.

The surname Folfa is most widely held in Romania, where it is borne by 4 people, or 1 in 5,019,468. In Romania Folfa is most common in: Bistrița-Năsăud County, where 100 percent reside. Not including Romania this surname is found in 3 countries. It also occurs in Italy, where 25 percent reside and Cameroon, where 13 percent reside.

Phonetically Similar Names

Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ASimilarity (high to low)Similarity (low to high)Prevalent jurisdiction A-ZPrevalent jurisdiction Z-A
SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Folfă9395/
Folfas91140/
Volfa8087/
Fulfa806/
Folfe802/
Folfy802/
Falfa802/
Falfas7321/
Faulfa734/
Fulfat731/
Folfou731/
Falfad730/
Faalfaa671/
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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 Folfa
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