Kanafe Surname
Approximately 25 people bear this surname
Kanafe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 7 | 1:1,476,515 | 57,381 |
| Malaysia | 7 | 1:4,213,461 | 150,293 |
| South Africa | 7 | 1:7,739,672 | 177,858 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
Kanafe (24) may also be a first name.
Kanafe Demographics
Average Kanafe Salary in
South Africa
R 70,968
Per year
Average Salary in
South Africa
R 237,638
Per year
Kanafe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kanafe Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kanafe is more commonly found in Benin than any other country or territory. It can be found in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kanafe? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 3,957,383rd most frequently used family name in the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 291,501,837 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 64 percent of Kanafe live; 36 percent live in West Africa and 36 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 2,187,323rd most commonly occurring forename world-wide, held by 24 people.
This last name is most frequently held in Benin, where it is held by 7 people, or 1 in 1,476,515. In Benin Kanafe is primarily concentrated in: Atakora Department, where 86 percent live and Borgou Department, where 14 percent live. Not including Benin it exists in 6 countries. It also occurs in Malaysia, where 28 percent live and South Africa, where 28 percent live.
Kanafe Last Name Statistics demography
Kanafe earn less than half the average income. In South Africa they earn 70.14% less than the national average, earning R 70,968 per year.
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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 Kanafe
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