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
The last name Jafiya (Bengali: জফিয়া, Hindi: जाफिया, Marathi: जफीया) is more frequently found in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It may be found in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Jafiya? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 796,486th most widely held family name in the world, borne by approximately 1 in 20,644,606 people. This last name is primarily found in Africa, where 94 percent of Jafiya reside; 94 percent reside in West Africa and 94 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Jafiya is also the 289,538th most commonly occurring first name throughout the world. It is borne by 799 people.
Jafiya is most frequent in Nigeria, where it is carried by 333 people, or 1 in 531,960. In Nigeria it is most common in: Borno, where 74 percent live, Adamawa, where 13 percent live and Yobe, where 4 percent live. Beside Nigeria this surname occurs in 5 countries. It also occurs in India, where 5 percent live and Australia, where 0 percent live.
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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