Gafabe Surname
Approximately 15 people bear this surname
Gafabe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 11 | 1:1,888,097 | 98,267 |
| Chad | 4 | 1:3,398,050 | 7,703 |
Gafabe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gafabe Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Gafabe is found most frequently in Cameroon. It may occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Gafabe? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 5,057,639th most widely held last name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by around 1 in 485,836,394 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Gafabe live; 80 percent live in West Africa and 53 percent live in Senegambia Africa.
This surname is most numerous in Cameroon, where it is held by 11 people, or 1 in 1,888,097. In Cameroon Gafabe is most prevalent in: North Region, where 73 percent reside, Centre Region, where 9 percent reside and Far North Region, where 9 percent reside. Excluding Cameroon it exists in one country. It is also found in Chad, where 27 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gafaube | 92 | 1 | / |
| Afabe | 91 | 85 | / |
| Gafobe | 83 | 12 | / |
| Hafabe | 83 | 2 | / |
| Afabet | 83 | 1 | / |
| Affabe | 83 | 1 | / |
| Afabie | 83 | 1 | / |
| Afabes | 83 | 1 | / |
| Afabei | 83 | 1 | / |
| Gafabi | 83 | 1 | / |
| Gafoube | 77 | 147 | / |
| Goufabe | 77 | 1 | / |
| Afaba | 73 | 19 | / |
| Afabi | 73 | 11 | / |
| Afobe | 73 | 5 | / |
| Afaby | 73 | 1 | / |
| Ngafoube | 71 | 3 | / |
| Gafoubea | 71 | 1 | / |
| Gaffoube | 71 | 1 | / |
| Gapfoube | 71 | 1 | / |
| Gafoubei | 71 | 1 | / |
| Affaba | 67 | 97 | / |
| Affabi | 67 | 19 | / |
| Gafoba | 67 | 8 | / |
| Afanpe | 67 | 4 | / |
| Afoube | 67 | 2 | / |
| Gofave | 67 | 1 | / |
| Afhaby | 67 | 1 | / |
| Afajbi | 67 | 1 | / |
| Afobea | 67 | 1 | / |
| Afabha | 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 Gafabe
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