Nafaya Surname
Approximately 17 people bear this surname
Nafaya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 16 | 1:1,298,067 | 76,941 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
Nafaya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nafaya Come From? nationality or country of origin
Nafaya is most common in Cameroon. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Nafaya? popularity and diffusion
Nafaya is the 4,772,636th most widespread last name in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 428,679,172 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Nafaya reside; 100 percent reside in West Africa and 94 percent reside in Senegambia Africa.
It is most widely held in Cameroon, where it is held by 16 people, or 1 in 1,298,067. In Cameroon Nafaya is most prevalent in: Far North Region, where 94 percent live and North Region, where 6 percent live. Barring Cameroon this surname occurs in one country. It also occurs in Niger, where 6 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
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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 Nafaya
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