Naffissa Surname
Approximately 70 people bear this surname
Naffissa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Algeria | 58 | 1:666,061 | 40,070 |
| Cameroon | 8 | 1:2,596,134 | 118,056 |
| Burkina Faso | 2 | 1:9,176,050 | 23,741 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
Naffissa (428) may also be a first name.
Naffissa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Naffissa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Naffissa (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻧﻔﻴﺴﻪ) is most common in Algeria. It may also be rendered as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of Naffissa.
How Common Is The Last Name Naffissa? popularity and diffusion
The last name Naffissa is the 2,273,756th most prevalent family name on a worldwide basis, borne by around 1 in 104,107,799 people. The last name Naffissa is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Naffissa live; 83 percent live in North Africa and 83 percent live in Mahgreb. Naffissa is also the 415,075th most frequently occurring forename on earth, borne by 428 people.
The last name is most common in Algeria, where it is borne by 58 people, or 1 in 666,061. In Algeria it is primarily concentrated in: Souk Ahras Province, where 100 percent reside. Besides Algeria it exists in 4 countries. It is also found in Cameroon, where 11 percent reside and Burkina Faso, where 3 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Naffissa Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Naffissa in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻧﻔﻴﺴﻪ | nfysh | 50 |
| ﻧﻔﻴﺴﺔ | nfyst | 50 |
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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 Naffissa
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