Lafe Surname
Approximately 482 people bear this surname
Lafe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 100 | 1:3,624,589 | 201,936 |
| Papua New Guinea | 93 | 1:87,674 | 11,644 |
| Nigeria | 64 | 1:2,767,856 | 88,308 |
| Venezuela | 39 | 1:774,464 | 12,743 |
| Cameroon | 32 | 1:649,033 | 48,340 |
| Indonesia | 23 | 1:5,749,965 | 259,967 |
| DR Congo | 21 | 1:3,518,075 | 145,665 |
| Russia | 16 | 1:9,007,691 | 311,782 |
| Brazil | 12 | 1:17,839,528 | 311,080 |
| Ivory Coast | 11 | 1:2,097,385 | 37,425 |
| Niger | 10 | 1:1,919,202 | 37,248 |
| Iran | 8 | 1:9,597,816 | 173,045 |
| Albania | 8 | 1:364,257 | 16,885 |
| Malaysia | 6 | 1:4,915,704 | 170,578 |
| Philippines | 5 | 1:20,247,645 | 262,352 |
| Greece | 4 | 1:2,769,948 | 101,568 |
| England | 4 | 1:13,929,515 | 290,718 |
| Sweden | 3 | 1:3,282,252 | 190,759 |
| Spain | 3 | 1:15,584,012 | 120,866 |
| France | 3 | 1:22,140,907 | 385,998 |
| Jordan | 2 | 1:4,421,218 | 22,351 |
| Italy | 2 | 1:30,578,344 | 160,757 |
| Canada | 2 | 1:18,422,796 | 409,488 |
| Solomon Islands | 2 | 1:290,014 | 19,875 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Latvia | 1 | 1:2,050,046 | 60,295 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Nepal | 1 | 1:28,480,956 | 22,413 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Honduras | 1 | 1:8,816,442 | 9,272 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 16 | 1:3,138,668 | 142,671 |
The alternate forms: Lafé (1) are calculated separately.
Lafe (1,295) may also be a first name.
Lafe Demographics
Lafe Political Affiliation
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Lafe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Lafe Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Lafe (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻻﻓﻪ, Russian: Лафе) has its highest incidence in The United States. It can be rendered as: Lafé. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Lafe? popularity and diffusion
The last name Lafe is the 633,196th most commonly used surname world-wide, borne by around 1 in 15,119,390 people. This last name occurs mostly in The Americas, where 32 percent of Lafe are found; 21 percent are found in North America and 21 percent are found in Anglo-North America. It is also the 218,771st most numerous first name at a global level. It is borne by 1,295 people.
It is most frequently held in The United States, where it is held by 100 people, or 1 in 3,624,589. In The United States it is primarily concentrated in: Florida, where 34 percent live, Pennsylvania, where 11 percent live and California, where 9 percent live. Without taking into account The United States this last name exists in 31 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 19 percent live and Nigeria, where 13 percent live.
Lafe Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Lafe has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Lafe surname increased 625 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Lafe Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States Lafe are 15.19% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than The US average, with 68.42% registered with the political party.
Lafe earn notably less less than the average income. In United States they earn 17.19% less than the national average, earning $35,730 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Lafe Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Lafe in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻻﻓﻪ | lafh | - |
| Lafe in the Russian language | ||
| Лафе | lafe | - |
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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 Lafe
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