Pefole Surname
Approximately 64 people bear this surname
Pefole Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lesotho | 45 | 1:45,168 | 7,359 |
| Cameroon | 16 | 1:1,298,067 | 76,941 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Pefole Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Pefole Come From? nationality or country of origin
Pefole occurs in Lesotho more than any other country or territory. It may be rendered as:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Pefole? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 2,394,033rd most common surname world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 113,867,905 people. The last name Pefole occurs mostly in Africa, where 98 percent of Pefole live; 73 percent live in Southern Africa and 73 percent live in South Bantu Africa.
The surname Pefole is most numerous in Lesotho, where it is held by 45 people, or 1 in 45,168. In Lesotho it is most numerous in: Mokhotlong District, where 51 percent are found, Maseru District, where 31 percent are found and Butha-Buthe District, where 18 percent are found. Without taking into account Lesotho this surname exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 25 percent are found and South Africa, where 3 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pefoule | 92 | 1 | / |
| Peffoles | 86 | 0 | / |
| Pefele | 83 | 19 | / |
| Pefale | 83 | 5 | / |
| Pofole | 83 | 4 | / |
| Pafoule | 77 | 30 | / |
| Pafolie | 77 | 2 | / |
| Pefelie | 77 | 2 | / |
| Petfule | 77 | 1 | / |
| Phofole | 77 | 1 | / |
| Peffele | 77 | 1 | / |
| Pefelea | 77 | 1 | / |
| Peufele | 77 | 1 | / |
| Pfefele | 77 | 0 | / |
| Pifol | 73 | 1 | / |
| Pechfule | 71 | 5 | / |
| Pafouleu | 71 | 1 | / |
| Pafouleh | 71 | 1 | / |
| Peffeley | 71 | 0 | / |
| Pfeffele | 71 | 0 | / |
| Pofale | 67 | 5,069 | / |
| Poifol | 67 | 160 | / |
| Pafale | 67 | 41 | / |
| Pifoli | 67 | 7 | / |
| Pifale | 67 | 5 | / |
| Pofele | 67 | 4 | / |
| Pefeli | 67 | 2 | / |
| Phaefelie | 67 | 0 | / |
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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 Pefole
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