Hafizai Surname
Approximately 370 people bear this surname
Hafizai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iran | 339 | 1:226,497 | 17,646 |
| Indonesia | 30 | 1:4,408,306 | 217,989 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
Hafizai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Hafizai Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Hafizai occurs more in Iran more than any other country or territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Hafizai? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 769,129th most widely held surname on a worldwide basis, held by around 1 in 19,696,070 people. Hafizai occurs mostly in Asia, where 100 percent of Hafizai are found; 92 percent are found in South Asia and 92 percent are found in Islamic South Asia.
This last name is most commonly used in Iran, where it is carried by 339 people, or 1 in 226,497. In Iran it is mostly found in: Yazd Province, where 60 percent are found, Tehran Province, where 29 percent are found and Razavi Khorasan Province, where 7 percent are found. Outside of Iran this last name occurs in 2 countries. It also occurs in Indonesia, where 8 percent are found and Malaysia, where 0 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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Hafizai
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