Keffa Surname
Approximately 1,328 people bear this surname
Keffa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 758 | 1:22,585 | 3,433 |
| Ivory Coast | 419 | 1:55,063 | 3,316 |
| Ethiopia | 49 | 1:1,990,740 | 8,024 |
| Liberia | 43 | 1:102,524 | 8,134 |
| Kenya | 23 | 1:2,007,822 | 36,224 |
| Benin | 10 | 1:1,033,560 | 48,353 |
| Uganda | 6 | 1:6,506,546 | 123,710 |
| Algeria | 4 | 1:9,657,888 | 64,782 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| Tanzania | 2 | 1:26,470,806 | 111,653 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
Keffa (1,423) may also be a first name.
Keffa Demographics
Keffa Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Keffa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Keffa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Keffa (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﻔﻪ, Russian: Кеффа) is found most frequently in Malawi. It can also appear in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Keffa? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 288,746th most commonly held last name world-wide It is held by around 1 in 5,487,610 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 93 percent of Keffa reside; 57 percent reside in Southern Africa and 57 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. Keffa is also the 206,897th most frequently held first name globally It is held by 1,423 people.
The surname Keffa is most widespread in Malawi, where it is carried by 758 people, or 1 in 22,585. Beside Malawi this surname occurs in 18 countries. It is also found in The Ivory Coast, where 32 percent live and Ethiopia, where 4 percent live.
Keffa Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those carrying the surname is primarily Christian (100%) in Kenya.
Phonetically Similar Names
Keffa Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Keffa in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﻔﻪ | kfh | - |
| Keffa in the Russian language | ||
| Кеффа | keffa | - |
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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 Keffa
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