Gharva Surname
Approximately 33 people bear this surname
Gharva Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 32 | 1:127,964 | 7,422 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Gharva Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gharva Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Gharva (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻗﺮﻑ) occurs more in Mauritania more than any other country/territory. It may also occur in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Gharva? popularity and diffusion
The surname Gharva is the 3,432,070th most common last name world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 220,834,725 people. Gharva occurs mostly in Africa, where 97 percent of Gharva live; 97 percent live in West Africa and 97 percent live in Senegambia Africa.
The surname is most common in Mauritania, where it is borne by 32 people, or 1 in 127,964. In Mauritania Gharva is mostly found in: Nouakchott-Sud Region, where 56 percent are found, Hodh El Gharbi Region, where 19 percent are found and Hodh Chargui Region, where 9 percent are found. Apart from Mauritania this last name occurs in one country. It also occurs in The United States, where 3 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Gharva Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Gharva in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻗﺮﻑ | qrf | 35.71 |
| ﻗﺮﻓﻪ | qrfh | 21.43 |
| ﻏﺮﻓﻪ | ghrfh | 21.43 |
| ﻛﺮﻓﻪ | krfh | 14.29 |
| ﻏﺮﻑ | ghrf | 7.14 |
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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 Gharva
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