Gaafour Surname
Approximately 116 people bear this surname
Gaafour Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Algeria | 111 | 1:348,032 | 31,649 |
| Egypt | 4 | 1:22,983,938 | 62,368 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
Gaafour Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gaafour Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gaafour is found most frequently in Algeria. It may be rendered as:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gaafour? popularity and diffusion
Gaafour is the 1,691,963rd most frequently held surname on a global scale, held by approximately 1 in 62,823,672 people. The last name Gaafour occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Gaafour are found; 99 percent are found in North Africa and 96 percent are found in Mahgreb.
The surname is most frequently held in Algeria, where it is carried by 111 people, or 1 in 348,032. In Algeria Gaafour is most frequent in: Tlemcen Province, where 100 percent are found. Excluding Algeria this last name exists in 2 countries. It is also common in Egypt, where 3 percent are found and Pakistan, where 1 percent are found.
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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 Gaafour
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