Ja'afar Surname
Approximately 860 people bear this surname
Ja'afar Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malaysia | 537 | 1:54,924 | 4,231 |
| Brunei | 197 | 1:2,126 | 388 |
| Singapore | 64 | 1:86,058 | 3,478 |
| Nigeria | 26 | 1:6,813,183 | 158,601 |
| United Arab Emirates | 11 | 1:832,934 | 27,512 |
| Canada | 6 | 1:6,140,932 | 260,641 |
| Australia | 4 | 1:6,748,925 | 181,100 |
| Indonesia | 3 | 1:44,083,065 | 698,220 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| Germany | 2 | 1:40,252,730 | 481,636 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Oman | 1 | 1:3,687,971 | 14,390 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Ja'afar (1,072) 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
Ja'afar is found most frequently in Malaysia. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Ja'afar? popularity and diffusion
Ja'afar is the 406,994th most numerous family name globally It is held by approximately 1 in 8,473,891 people. This surname is predominantly found in Asia, where 95 percent of Ja'afar live; 93 percent live in Southeast Asia and 86 percent live in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia. It is also the 244,199th most frequently held first name worldwide, held by 1,072 people.
The surname Ja'afar is most prevalent in Malaysia, where it is borne by 537 people, or 1 in 54,924. In Malaysia Ja'afar is most numerous in: Selangor, where 37 percent live, Johor, where 18 percent live and Terengganu, where 8 percent live. Outside of Malaysia Ja'afar exists in 16 countries. It is also found in Brunei, where 23 percent live and Singapore, where 7 percent live.
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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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