Pafras Surname

2,843,861st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 47 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Greece
Highest density in:
Greece

Pafras Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Pafras Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Greece401:276,99541,298
United States51:72,491,7871,102,614
Yemen21:13,212,64740,633

Pafras Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Pafras Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Pafras is carried by more people in Greece than any other country or territory. It can occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of Pafras.

How Common Is The Last Name Pafras? popularity and diffusion

It is the 2,843,861st most widely held family name in the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 155,054,168 people. Pafras occurs mostly in Europe, where 85 percent of Pafras are found; 85 percent are found in Southeastern Europe and 85 percent are found in Helleno-Europe.

Pafras is most commonly used in Greece, where it is carried by 40 people, or 1 in 276,995. In Greece Pafras is most numerous in: Central Greece, where 98 percent are found and Attica, where 3 percent are found. Not including Greece this surname exists in 2 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 11 percent are found and Yemen, where 4 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Pafra917/
Pafrath773/
Pfafrods716/
Pfafrots711/
Pafrod671/
Paphra671/
Pashfroush631/
Paphrai62123/
Phaphra623/
Paifrey621/
Pophras620/
Phaphrah571/
Paffroth570/
Pfaffroth5317/
Pfeiferra530/
Pofrei501/

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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
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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 Pafras
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