Kafiam Surname
Approximately 17 people bear this surname
Kafiam Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 16 | 1:11,071,422 | 210,388 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
Kafiam Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kafiam Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kafiam is carried by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It may be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kafiam? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 4,772,636th most frequent surname internationally It is held by around 1 in 428,679,172 people. It is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Kafiam live; 94 percent live in West Africa and 94 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The surname is most commonly held in Nigeria, where it is carried by 16 people, or 1 in 11,071,422. In Nigeria it is mostly found in: Borno, where 94 percent live and Kaduna, where 6 percent live. Besides Nigeria it occurs in one country. It is also found in Cameroon, where 6 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
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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 Kafiam
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