Nyafia Surname
Approximately 100 people bear this surname
Nyafia Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 99 | 1:209,789 | 21,424 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
Nyafia Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nyafia Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Nyafia is found most in Cameroon. It can occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Nyafia? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,849,867th most commonly used last name worldwide, held by approximately 1 in 72,875,459 people. The last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Nyafia reside; 99 percent reside in Central Africa and 99 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa.
The surname Nyafia is most frequently occurring in Cameroon, where it is held by 99 people, or 1 in 209,789. In Cameroon it is primarily found in: Northwest Region, where 99 percent live and South Region, where 1 percent live. Barring Cameroon Nyafia occurs in one country. It also occurs in Nigeria, 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
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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
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