Japhat Surname
Approximately 294 people bear this surname
Japhat Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 259 | 1:683,949 | 31,723 |
| Papua New Guinea | 28 | 1:291,204 | 39,406 |
| Tanzania | 3 | 1:17,647,204 | 107,932 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Japhat (933) may also be a first name.
Japhat Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Japhat Come From? nationality or country of origin
Japhat (Hindi: जाफत, Oriya: ଜାଫତ୍) occurs more in Nigeria more than any other country/territory. It may occur in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Japhat? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 906,170th most frequently used surname world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 24,787,571 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 89 percent of Japhat live; 88 percent live in West Africa and 88 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 264,724th most commonly used first name worldwide. It is borne by 933 people.
The last name Japhat is most numerous in Nigeria, where it is borne by 259 people, or 1 in 683,949. In Nigeria it is most frequent in: Akwa Ibom, where 33 percent are found, Gombe, where 10 percent are found and Cross River, where 8 percent are found. Not including Nigeria this last name exists in 5 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 10 percent are found and Tanzania, where 1 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Japhat Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Japhat in the Hindi language | ||
| जाफत | japhata | 50 |
| जफात | japhata | 50 |
| Japhat in the Oriya language | ||
| ଜାଫତ୍ | japhat | 33.33 |
| ଜାଫତ | japhata | 33.33 |
| ଯାଫ | yapha | 33.33 |
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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 Japhat
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