Kafere Surname
Approximately 1,629 people bear this surname
Kafere Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 1,542 | 1:11,102 | 1,709 |
| Zimbabwe | 74 | 1:208,625 | 23,867 |
| Nigeria | 5 | 1:35,428,552 | 388,973 |
| Ivory Coast | 2 | 1:11,535,616 | 61,806 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Solomon Islands | 1 | 1:580,029 | 22,243 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
Kafere (99) may also be a first name.
Kafere Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kafere Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kafere is carried by more people in Malawi than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kafere? popularity and diffusion
Kafere is the 244,515th most common surname on earth, held by around 1 in 4,473,632 people. This surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Kafere live; 99 percent live in Southern Africa and 99 percent live in South Bantu Africa. Kafere is also the 951,070th most commonly occurring first name at a global level, borne by 99 people.
The last name Kafere is most common in Malawi, where it is borne by 1,542 people, or 1 in 11,102. Without taking into account Malawi this last name occurs in 8 countries. It is also common in Zimbabwe, where 5 percent live and Nigeria, where 0 percent live.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Kafere
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