Latifatu Surname

689,921st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 429 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Ghana
Highest density in:
Ghana

Latifatu Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Latifatu Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ghana2771:97,5489,187
Nigeria1461:1,213,30748,905
Cameroon51:4,153,814129,697
Ivory Coast11:23,071,23276,679

Latifatu (5,032) may also be a first name.

Latifatu Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Latifatu Come From? nationality or country of origin

Latifatu occurs in Ghana more than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered as:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Latifatu? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 689,921st most commonly occurring last name on a global scale. It is borne by approximately 1 in 16,987,287 people. The last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Latifatu live; 99 percent live in West Africa and 99 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Latifatu is also the 95,837th most frequently occurring given name in the world It is held by 5,032 people.

This last name is most frequent in Ghana, where it is borne by 277 people, or 1 in 97,548. Besides Ghana this surname is found in 3 countries. It also occurs in Nigeria, where 34 percent are found and Cameroon, where 1 percent are found.

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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 Latifatu
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