Kifa Surname
Approximately 639 people bear this surname
Kifa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morocco | 136 | 1:253,501 | 42,794 |
| Russia | 102 | 1:1,412,971 | 98,464 |
| DR Congo | 96 | 1:769,579 | 54,223 |
| Papua New Guinea | 68 | 1:119,908 | 16,326 |
| Moldova | 40 | 1:89,034 | 11,037 |
| Romania | 35 | 1:573,653 | 41,852 |
| Uganda | 31 | 1:1,259,332 | 49,678 |
| Turkey | 20 | 1:3,891,071 | 97,520 |
| Benin | 16 | 1:645,975 | 38,126 |
| Transnistria | 15 | 1:31,647 | 5,088 |
| Indonesia | 12 | 1:11,020,766 | 390,383 |
| Nigeria | 8 | 1:22,142,845 | 310,552 |
| India | 8 | 1:95,883,173 | 728,828 |
| Liberia | 7 | 1:629,791 | 27,063 |
| Germany | 7 | 1:11,500,780 | 305,602 |
| Argentina | 7 | 1:6,106,202 | 178,634 |
| United States | 6 | 1:60,409,822 | 1,028,827 |
| Kazakhstan | 5 | 1:3,536,499 | 118,599 |
| Greece | 3 | 1:3,693,263 | 126,191 |
| Latvia | 2 | 1:1,025,023 | 41,546 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1:159,356,773 | 26,077 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 1:16,739,561 | 595,711 |
Kifa (425) may also be a first name.
Kifa Demographics
Kifa Religious Adherence
in Russia
Religious Adherence
in Russia
Kifa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kifa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kifa (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﻴﻔﻪ, Hindi: किफा, Russian: Кифа) is held by more people in Morocco than any other country or territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kifa? popularity and diffusion
It is the 511,519th most widely held surname throughout the world, held by around 1 in 11,404,610 people. The surname Kifa occurs mostly in Africa, where 47 percent of Kifa are found; 27 percent are found in Eastern Europe and 21 percent are found in Mahgreb. Kifa is also the 416,660th most commonly held first name worldwide, held by 425 people.
The last name is most prevalent in Morocco, where it is carried by 136 people, or 1 in 253,501. Beside Morocco this last name occurs in 34 countries. It is also common in Russia, where 16 percent live and The DR Congo, where 15 percent live.
Kifa Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Kifa has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Kifa surname increased 200 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Kifa Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the last name is predominantly Orthodox (75%) in Russia and Orthodox (100%) in Ukraine.
In The United States those holding the Kifa surname are 0.29% more likely to be registered with the United Russia Party than the national average, with 47.06% being registered to vote for the party.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kifa Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kifa in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﻴﻔﻪ | kyfh | - |
| Kifa in the Hindi language | ||
| किफा | kipha | 80 |
| कीफा | kipha | 20 |
| Kifa in the Russian language | ||
| Кифа | kifa | - |
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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 Kifa
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