Kafela Surname
Approximately 167 people bear this surname
Kafela Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 131 | 1:130,680 | 14,293 |
| Zimbabwe | 9 | 1:1,715,360 | 84,476 |
| Russia | 8 | 1:18,015,382 | 436,635 |
| United States | 6 | 1:60,409,822 | 1,028,827 |
| Egypt | 4 | 1:22,983,938 | 62,368 |
| England | 4 | 1:13,929,515 | 290,718 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
Kafela (37) may also be a first name.
Kafela Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kafela Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kafela (Russian: Кафела) is more commonly found in Malawi than any other country or territory. It may be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Kafela click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kafela? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 1,338,236th most frequently occurring family name worldwide, held by around 1 in 43,637,999 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 88 percent of Kafela live; 84 percent live in Southern Africa and 84 percent live in South Bantu Africa. Kafela is also the 1,688,769th most frequently used first name at a global level. It is borne by 37 people.
Kafela is most frequently occurring in Malawi, where it is borne by 131 people, or 1 in 130,680. Apart from Malawi it exists in 10 countries. It also occurs in Zimbabwe, where 5 percent are found and Russia, where 5 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kafela Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kafela in the Russian language | ||
| Кафела | kafela | - |
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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 Kafela
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