Kafaya Surname
Approximately 311 people bear this surname
Kafaya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 182 | 1:973,312 | 41,407 |
| DR Congo | 123 | 1:600,647 | 45,387 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Kafaya (10,619) may also be a first name.
Kafaya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kafaya Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kafaya (Marathi: काफाया) is found most in Nigeria. It can also appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kafaya? popularity and diffusion
The last name Kafaya is the 870,423rd most commonly used family name on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 23,432,624 people. This surname is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Kafaya reside; 59 percent reside in West Africa and 59 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 58,852nd most frequently occurring first name at a global level, held by 10,619 people.
The surname Kafaya is most frequently held in Nigeria, where it is borne by 182 people, or 1 in 973,312. In Nigeria Kafaya is most numerous in: Lagos, where 26 percent reside, Ogun, where 25 percent reside and Oyo, where 20 percent reside. Without taking into account Nigeria this surname exists in 7 countries. It is also found in The DR Congo, where 40 percent reside and Benin, where 0 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kafaya Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kafaya in the Marathi language | ||
| काफाया | kaphaya | 50 |
| काफया | kaphaya | 50 |
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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 Kafaya
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