Gafenowitz Surname
Approximately 9 people bear this surname
Gafenowitz Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 7 | 1:7,739,672 | 177,858 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
Gafenowitz Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gafenowitz Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Gafenowitz is held by more people in South Africa than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Gafenowitz click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gafenowitz? popularity and diffusion
It is the 6,360,413th most prevalent last name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by around 1 in 809,727,324 people. Gafenowitz is predominantly found in Africa, where 78 percent of Gafenowitz reside; 78 percent reside in Southern Africa and 78 percent reside in South Bantu Africa.
The surname Gafenowitz is most commonly used in South Africa, where it is borne by 7 people, or 1 in 7,739,672. In South Africa it is most frequent in: Western Cape, where 71 percent live, Gauteng, where 14 percent live and KwaZulu-Natal, where 14 percent live. Excluding South Africa it occurs in one country. It is also common in The United States, where 22 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gafinowitz | 90 | 11 | / |
| Gafinovitz | 80 | 1 | / |
| Gafinowitch | 76 | 3 | / |
| Afinowicz | 74 | 60 | / |
| Afinovitz | 74 | 9 | / |
| Afynowicz | 74 | 8 | / |
| Afenovicz | 74 | 1 | / |
| Afinowic | 67 | 1 | / |
| Afinovicz | 63 | 71 | / |
| Ofinowicz | 63 | 14 | / |
| Afynowycz | 63 | 11 | / |
| Afinowich | 63 | 11 | / |
| Gafinovich | 60 | 14 | / |
| Afinovitch | 60 | 7 | / |
| Otfinowicz | 60 | 1 | / |
| Gaffinovich | 57 | 1 | / |
| Afinovich | 53 | 3 | / |
| Afinovetch | 50 | 6 | / |
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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 Gafenowitz
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