Nafissa Surname
Approximately 5,818 people bear this surname
Nafissa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 3,558 | 1:5,837 | 710 |
| Chad | 770 | 1:17,652 | 2,191 |
| Niger | 628 | 1:30,561 | 1,729 |
| Burkina Faso | 567 | 1:32,367 | 1,781 |
| Morocco | 239 | 1:144,251 | 25,171 |
| DR Congo | 27 | 1:2,736,280 | 122,818 |
| Indonesia | 7 | 1:18,892,742 | 520,071 |
| Tunisia | 4 | 1:152,656 | 17,743 |
| France | 4 | 1:16,605,680 | 368,153 |
| Algeria | 3 | 1:12,877,184 | 84,902 |
| Benin | 2 | 1:5,167,801 | 84,334 |
| Ivory Coast | 2 | 1:11,535,616 | 61,806 |
| Congo | 2 | 1:2,494,548 | 28,763 |
| Madagascar | 1 | 1:23,649,837 | 9,420 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Rwanda | 1 | 1:11,364,978 | 5,947 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Nafissa (122,804) may also be a first name.
Nafissa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nafissa Come From? nationality or country of origin
Nafissa (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻧﻔﻴﺴﻪ) is found most frequently in Cameroon. It can be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Nafissa? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 83,233rd most commonly used last name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by approximately 1 in 1,252,586 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Nafissa reside; 87 percent reside in West Africa and 43 percent reside in Chadic Africa. Nafissa is also the 8,427th most frequent first name throughout the world. It is borne by 122,804 people.
The last name is most common in Cameroon, where it is borne by 3,558 people, or 1 in 5,837. In Cameroon Nafissa is mostly found in: Far North Region, where 74 percent reside, North Region, where 19 percent reside and Adamawa Region, where 2 percent reside. Outside of Cameroon this surname occurs in 17 countries. It is also found in Chad, where 13 percent reside and Niger, where 11 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Nafissa Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Nafissa in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻧﻔﻴﺴﻪ | nfysh | 67.65 |
| ﻧﻔﻴﺴﺔ | nfyst | 29.41 |
| ﻧﻔﻴﺲ | nfys | 2.94 |
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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 Nafissa
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