Kufia Surname
Approximately 51 people bear this surname
Kufia Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 17 | 1:479,630 | 60,627 |
| Cameroon | 16 | 1:1,298,067 | 76,941 |
| Indonesia | 13 | 1:10,173,015 | 372,576 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Kufia (45) may also be a first name.
Kufia Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kufia Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kufia is more commonly found in Papua New Guinea than any other country/territory. It can also occur as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Kufia? popularity and diffusion
Kufia is the 2,718,172nd most commonly occurring family name on a worldwide basis, borne by around 1 in 142,893,057 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 37 percent of Kufia live; 33 percent live in Central Africa and 33 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. Kufia is also the 1,504,468th most prevalent first name world-wide, held by 45 people.
The last name is most commonly occurring in Papua New Guinea, where it is borne by 17 people, or 1 in 479,630. In Papua New Guinea Kufia is mostly concentrated in: Northern, where 82 percent reside, Eastern Highlands, where 12 percent reside and East Sepik, where 6 percent reside. Apart from Papua New Guinea it exists in 6 countries. It is also common in Cameroon, where 31 percent reside and Indonesia, where 25 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
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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 Kufia
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