Lafos Surname
Approximately 125 people bear this surname
Lafos Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 103 | 1:781,606 | 57,825 |
| Argentina | 8 | 1:5,342,927 | 168,491 |
| Switzerland | 6 | 1:1,368,819 | 77,571 |
| Thailand | 4 | 1:17,659,586 | 685,799 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 11 | 1:4,565,335 | 193,764 |
Lafos Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Lafos Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Lafos is found most in Germany. It may be found in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Lafos? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,612,213th most commonly occurring last name world-wide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 58,300,367 people. The last name Lafos occurs predominantly in Europe, where 90 percent of Lafos reside; 89 percent reside in Western Europe and 88 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
The last name is most frequently occurring in Germany, where it is held by 103 people, or 1 in 781,606. In Germany it is most frequent in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 53 percent live, Rhineland-Palatinate, where 40 percent live and Lower Saxony, where 5 percent live. Without taking into account Germany this last name is found in 7 countries. It also occurs in Argentina, where 6 percent live and Switzerland, where 5 percent live.
Lafos Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Lafos has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Lafos surname contracted 91 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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 Lafos
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