Ja-Afar Surname
Approximately 33 people bear this surname
Ja-Afar Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 32 | 1:5,535,711 | 139,404 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
Ja-Afar (33) may also be a first name.
Ja-Afar Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ja-Afar Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Ja-Afar is found most in Nigeria. It can also appear as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ja-Afar? popularity and diffusion
It is the 3,432,070th most frequent surname world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 220,834,725 people. The surname Ja-Afar is primarily found in Africa, where 97 percent of Ja-Afar reside; 97 percent reside in West Africa and 97 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,807,719th most prevalent first name throughout the world It is held by 33 people.
This last name is most frequent in Nigeria, where it is held by 32 people, or 1 in 5,535,711. In Nigeria it is mostly found in: Kano, where 59 percent reside, Kaduna, where 34 percent reside and Nasarawa, where 3 percent reside. Outside of Nigeria it exists in one country. It also occurs in The Philippines, where 3 percent reside.
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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 Ja-Afar
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