Japhu Surname
Approximately 4 people bear this surname
Japhu Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 3 | 1:17,647,204 | 107,932 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
Japhu (21) may also be a first name.
Japhu Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Japhu Come From? nationality or country of origin
Japhu (Hindi: जाफू, Oriya: ଜଫୁ, Tibetan: བྱ་ཕུ།) is found most frequently in Tanzania. It can also be found in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Japhu? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 8,968,613th most numerous last name at a global level. It is borne by approximately 1 in 1,821,886,479 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Japhu live; 100 percent live in East Africa and 100 percent live in East Bantu Africa. It is also the 2,368,944th most widely held given name internationally, borne by 21 people.
The surname is most widely held in Tanzania, where it is carried by 3 people, or 1 in 17,647,204. In Tanzania it is most frequent in: Dodoma Region, where 33 percent live, Mbeya Region, where 33 percent live and Ruvuma Region, where 33 percent live. Besides Tanzania this last name occurs in one country. It also occurs in Uganda, where 25 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Japhu Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Japhu in the Oriya language | ||
| ଜଫୁ | japhu | - |
| Japhu in the Tibetan language | ||
| བྱ་ཕུ། | japu | 33.33 |
| རྒྱ་ཕུག། | gyapuk | 33.33 |
| བྱ་ཕུག། | japuk | 33.33 |
| Japhu in the Hindi language | ||
| जाफू | japhu | 33.33 |
| जाफु | japhu | 33.33 |
| जफू | japhu | 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 Japhu
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