Jawfar Surname
Approximately 760 people bear this surname
Jawfar Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sri Lanka | 585 | 1:35,570 | 4,375 |
| Iran | 150 | 1:511,883 | 30,108 |
| Qatar | 16 | 1:147,375 | 16,023 |
| United Arab Emirates | 4 | 1:2,290,568 | 60,372 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Jawfar (13) may also be a first name.
Jawfar Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Jawfar Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Jawfar (Arabic: جوفر) is found most frequently in Sri Lanka. It can also be rendered as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Jawfar? popularity and diffusion
The surname Jawfar is the 448,102nd most frequent family name globally It is held by around 1 in 9,588,876 people. This last name occurs mostly in Asia, where 100 percent of Jawfar live; 97 percent live in South Asia and 77 percent live in Indo-South Asia. It is also the 3,159,357th most commonly held first name at a global level It is held by 13 people.
The last name is most widespread in Sri Lanka, where it is borne by 585 people, or 1 in 35,570. Other than Sri Lanka this last name occurs in 8 countries. It is also common in Iran, where 20 percent reside and Qatar, where 2 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Jawfar Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Jawfar in the Arabic language | ||
| جوفر | jwfr | - |
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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 Jawfar
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