Pafanam Surname
Approximately 143 people bear this surname
Pafanam Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 142 | 1:129,240 | 3,559 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
Pafanam Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Pafanam Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Pafanam is more commonly found in Burkina Faso than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Pafanam? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 1,478,479th most common family name worldwide, held by around 1 in 50,961,860 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Pafanam reside; 99 percent reside in West Africa and 90 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
This last name is most frequent in Burkina Faso, where it is carried by 142 people, or 1 in 129,240. In Burkina Faso it is most common in: Centre-Nord Region, where 63 percent are found, Est Region, where 11 percent are found and Sahel Region, where 11 percent are found. Besides Burkina Faso this surname is found in one country. It also occurs in Belgium, where 1 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pafaname | 93 | 10 | / |
| Pafagnam | 93 | 1 | / |
| Paiphanom | 63 | 1 | / |
| Phaiphanom | 59 | 2 | / |
| Patphanang | 59 | 1 | / |
| Phaphonngam | 56 | 61 | / |
| Phophaingam | 56 | 1 | / |
| Phahaphonhom | 53 | 9 | / |
| Pophanom | 53 | 1 | / |
| Phophanan | 50 | 4 | / |
| Paphonhom | 50 | 4 | / |
| Phophanom | 50 | 3 | / |
| Poophanom | 50 | 1 | / |
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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 Pafanam
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