Mafiya Surname
Approximately 153 people bear this surname
Mafiya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 109 | 1:677,794 | 49,381 |
| India | 24 | 1:31,961,058 | 386,265 |
| Bangladesh | 9 | 1:17,706,308 | 13,537 |
| Nigeria | 4 | 1:44,285,690 | 437,567 |
| South Africa | 3 | 1:18,059,235 | 248,362 |
| Pakistan | 2 | 1:89,321,942 | 157,560 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
Mafiya (7,675) may also be a first name.
Mafiya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mafiya Come From? nationality or country of origin
Mafiya (Bengali: মাফিয়া, Hindi: माफिया, Marathi: माफीया) has its highest incidence in The DR Congo. It may occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Mafiya? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,415,499th most widely held last name world-wide, held by around 1 in 47,631,019 people. Mafiya occurs predominantly in Africa, where 77 percent of Mafiya live; 72 percent live in Central Africa and 72 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. Mafiya is also the 73,044th most common first name world-wide. It is borne by 7,675 people.
This surname is most widely held in The DR Congo, where it is borne by 109 people, or 1 in 677,794. Other than The DR Congo this surname occurs in 7 countries. It is also found in India, where 16 percent are found and Bangladesh, where 6 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Mafiya Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Mafiya in the Bengali language | ||
| মাফিয়া | maphiya | 96.23 |
| মফিয়া | maphiya | 3.77 |
| Mafiya in the Marathi language | ||
| माफीया | maphiya | 92.31 |
| माफीयााल | maphiyaala | 7.69 |
| Mafiya in the Hindi language | ||
| माफिया | maphiya | 83.68 |
| माफीया | maphiya | 13.01 |
| मफिया | maphiya | 1.82 |
| मफीया | maphiya | 1.41 |
| माफिॅया | maphieya | 0.08 |
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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 Mafiya
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