Koufa Surname
Approximately 543 people bear this surname
Koufa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 246 | 1:720,093 | 33,031 |
| Morocco | 170 | 1:202,801 | 34,956 |
| Greece | 63 | 1:175,870 | 28,388 |
| Cameroon | 28 | 1:741,752 | 52,682 |
| Lebanon | 10 | 1:563,708 | 13,499 |
| Papua New Guinea | 10 | 1:815,372 | 88,623 |
| Niger | 5 | 1:3,838,403 | 64,195 |
| Algeria | 4 | 1:9,657,888 | 64,782 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
Koufa (857) may also be a first name.
Koufa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Koufa Come From? nationality or country of origin
Koufa is held by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It can appear as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Koufa? popularity and diffusion
The surname Koufa is the 578,557th most commonly used last name internationally. It is borne by around 1 in 13,420,895 people. The last name Koufa occurs mostly in Africa, where 84 percent of Koufa live; 52 percent live in West Africa and 45 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Koufa is also the 278,206th most commonly used first name at a global level, borne by 857 people.
It is most widely held in Nigeria, where it is borne by 246 people, or 1 in 720,093. In Nigeria Koufa is most prevalent in: Bayelsa, where 78 percent reside, Lagos, where 9 percent reside and Rivers, where 7 percent reside. Apart from Nigeria this surname is found in 12 countries. It also occurs in Morocco, where 31 percent reside and Greece, where 12 percent reside.
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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 Koufa
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