Kafari Surname
Approximately 773 people bear this surname
Kafari Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 346 | 1:78,094 | 7,799 |
| Nigeria | 292 | 1:606,653 | 28,963 |
| India | 59 | 1:13,001,108 | 227,026 |
| DR Congo | 27 | 1:2,736,280 | 122,818 |
| Uganda | 24 | 1:1,626,637 | 57,482 |
| Azerbaijan | 7 | 1:1,378,446 | 18,562 |
| England | 4 | 1:13,929,515 | 290,718 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Pakistan | 2 | 1:89,321,942 | 157,560 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| Turkey | 2 | 1:38,910,711 | 171,901 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Yemen | 1 | 1:26,425,294 | 55,147 |
Kafari (210) may also be a first name.
Kafari Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kafari Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kafari (Hindi: कफरी, Marathi: काफरी, Russian: Кафари) is found most frequently in Ghana. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of Kafari.
How Common Is The Last Name Kafari? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 442,270th most widely held last name world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 9,427,614 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 89 percent of Kafari reside; 83 percent reside in West Africa and 83 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Kafari is also the 624,169th most frequently occurring first name internationally. It is borne by 210 people.
Kafari is most frequent in Ghana, where it is carried by 346 people, or 1 in 78,094. Other than Ghana it is found in 15 countries. It is also found in Nigeria, where 38 percent reside and India, where 8 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kafari Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kafari in the Hindi language | ||
| कफरी | kaphari | - |
| Kafari in the Marathi language | ||
| काफरी | kaphari | 50 |
| कफारी | kaphari | 50 |
| Kafari in the Russian language | ||
| Кафари | kafari | - |
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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 Kafari
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