Kachef Surname
Approximately 258 people bear this surname
Kachef Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Egypt | 214 | 1:429,606 | 25,756 |
| Mauritania | 34 | 1:120,437 | 7,101 |
| Canada | 4 | 1:9,211,398 | 321,528 |
| Algeria | 2 | 1:19,315,776 | 97,017 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Syria | 1 | 1:19,301,022 | 22,457 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Kachef (20) may also be a first name.
Kachef Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kachef Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kachef (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﺎﺷﻒ) occurs most in Egypt. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Kachef? popularity and diffusion
The surname Kachef is the 993,593rd most frequent family name worldwide, borne by around 1 in 28,246,302 people. The surname Kachef occurs mostly in Africa, where 97 percent of Kachef are found; 84 percent are found in North Africa and 83 percent are found in Arabic North Africa. It is also the 2,446,817th most frequently occurring forename at a global level, borne by 20 people.
This last name is most frequently held in Egypt, where it is carried by 214 people, or 1 in 429,606. Other than Egypt it occurs in 7 countries. It is also found in Mauritania, where 13 percent live and Canada, where 2 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kachef Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kachef in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﺎﺷﻒ | kashf | 92.31 |
| ﺍﻟﻜﺎﺷﻒ | alkashf | 7.69 |
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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 Kachef
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