Jafiya Surname
Approximately 353 people bear this surname
Jafiya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 333 | 1:531,960 | 26,148 |
| India | 16 | 1:47,941,586 | 492,263 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
Jafiya (799) may also be a first name.
Jafiya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Jafiya Come From? nationality or country of origin
Jafiya (Bengali: জফিয়া, Hindi: जाफिया, Marathi: जफीया) is held by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Jafiya? popularity and diffusion
The surname Jafiya is the 796,486th most frequent family name worldwide. It is borne by around 1 in 20,644,606 people. Jafiya is predominantly found in Africa, where 94 percent of Jafiya live; 94 percent live in West Africa and 94 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Jafiya is also the 289,538th most numerous forename in the world, borne by 799 people.
The surname is most frequently used in Nigeria, where it is carried by 333 people, or 1 in 531,960. In Nigeria it is most prevalent in: Borno, where 74 percent reside, Adamawa, where 13 percent reside and Yobe, where 4 percent reside. Aside from Nigeria this surname occurs in 5 countries. It is also found in India, where 5 percent reside and Australia, where 0 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Jafiya Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Jafiya in the Bengali language | ||
| জফিয়া | japhiya | 75 |
| জাফিয়া | japhiya | 25 |
| Jafiya in the Marathi language | ||
| जफीया | japhiya | 66.67 |
| जाफीया | japhiya | 29.82 |
| जािवद | jaivada | 1.75 |
| जािकया | jaikaya | 1.75 |
| Jafiya in the Hindi language | ||
| जाफिया | japhiya | 61.65 |
| जफिया | japhiya | 34.96 |
| जफीया | japhiya | 2.26 |
| जाफीया | japhiya | 1.13 |
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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 Jafiya
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