Maife Surname
Approximately 128 people bear this surname
Maife Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 62 | 1:2,857,141 | 90,271 |
| Papua New Guinea | 62 | 1:131,512 | 18,033 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 1:12,554,671 | 503,821 |
Maife (109) may also be a first name.
Maife Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Maife Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Maife is more commonly found in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Maife? popularity and diffusion
The surname Maife is the 1,589,322nd most frequently held last name world-wide, borne by approximately 1 in 56,933,952 people. The last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 51 percent of Maife are found; 50 percent are found in West Africa and 48 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Maife is also the 900,062nd most commonly occurring first name worldwide, borne by 109 people.
This surname is most widely held in Nigeria, where it is carried by 62 people, or 1 in 2,857,141. In Nigeria Maife is primarily found in: Delta, where 52 percent live, Rivers, where 16 percent live and Federal Capital Territory, where 15 percent live. Apart from Nigeria it is found in 5 countries. It is also common in Papua New Guinea, where 48 percent live and Algeria, where 1 percent live.
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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 Maife
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