Raffarty Surname

8,968,613th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 4 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Northern Ireland

Raffarty Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Raffarty Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States21:181,229,4661,556,795
Northern Ireland11:1,845,03620,648
England11:55,718,059489,080
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ireland51:885,97323,404
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Scotland401:93,5804,818
England101:2,437,53768,340
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States491:1,024,87160,160

Raffarty Last Name Facts

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

Raffarty is most common in The United States. It may be rendered as:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Raffarty? popularity and diffusion

The surname Raffarty is the 8,968,613th most frequent surname at a global level, held by approximately 1 in 1,821,886,479 people. The surname occurs mostly in The Americas, where 50 percent of Raffarty live; 50 percent live in North America and 50 percent live in Anglo-North America.

The surname Raffarty is most common in The United States, where it is carried by 2 people, or 1 in 181,229,466. In The United States it is most numerous in: Missouri, where 50 percent reside and New Jersey, where 50 percent reside. Outside of The United States it occurs in 2 countries. It is also common in Northern Ireland, where 25 percent reside and England, where 25 percent reside.

Raffarty Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The prevalency of Raffarty has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the surname decreased 96 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it decreased 90 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Raffarty Last Name Statistics demography

The religious adherence of those holding the Raffarty surname is principally Catholic (100%) in Ireland.

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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
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Raffarty
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