Gafon Surname
Approximately 236 people bear this surname
Gafon Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Romania | 214 | 1:93,822 | 10,797 |
| Papua New Guinea | 10 | 1:815,372 | 88,623 |
| Netherlands | 5 | 1:3,377,435 | 111,911 |
| Russia | 4 | 1:36,030,764 | 577,589 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
Gafon Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gafon Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Gafon (Russian: Гафон) is found most in Romania. It can be rendered as:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gafon? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 1,058,336th most widespread last name globally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 30,879,432 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Europe, where 94 percent of Gafon are found; 92 percent are found in Eastern Europe and 91 percent are found in Romanian Europe.
The surname is most frequent in Romania, where it is held by 214 people, or 1 in 93,822. In Romania Gafon is mostly concentrated in: Timiș County, where 34 percent reside, Iași County, where 27 percent reside and Brașov County, where 19 percent reside. Beside Romania this surname is found in 6 countries. It is also found in Papua New Guinea, where 4 percent reside and The Netherlands, where 2 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Gafon Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Gafon in the Russian language | ||
| Гафон | gafon | - |
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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 Gafon
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