Ponfa Surname
Approximately 382 people bear this surname
Ponfa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 381 | 1:464,942 | 23,564 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
Ponfa (1,066) may also be a first name.
Ponfa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ponfa Come From? nationality or country of origin
Ponfa is found in Nigeria more than any other country/territory. It may also be found as:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ponfa? popularity and diffusion
Ponfa is the 751,291st most widely held family name on a worldwide basis, held by around 1 in 19,077,345 people. The last name Ponfa occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Ponfa live; 100 percent live in West Africa and 100 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Ponfa is also the 245,025th most frequent first name world-wide, held by 1,066 people.
Ponfa is most widely held in Nigeria, where it is borne by 381 people, or 1 in 464,942. In Nigeria Ponfa is most common in: Plateau, where 86 percent live, Nasarawa, where 4 percent live and Adamawa, where 3 percent live. Apart from Nigeria this last name occurs in one country. It also occurs in Thailand, where 0 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
- 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 Ponfa
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