Rafiatou Surname
Approximately 98 people bear this surname
Rafiatou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 83 | 1:250,230 | 24,514 |
| Niger | 8 | 1:2,399,002 | 43,750 |
| Ethiopia | 4 | 1:24,386,566 | 19,165 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Rafiatou (13,453) may also be a first name.
Rafiatou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Rafiatou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Rafiatou is carried by more people in Cameroon than any other country or territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Rafiatou? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,871,545th most commonly held family name in the world, borne by around 1 in 74,362,713 people. The surname is mostly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Rafiatou reside; 58 percent reside in Central Africa and 40 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 50,081st most common first name on earth, borne by 13,453 people.
The surname Rafiatou is most frequently held in Cameroon, where it is borne by 83 people, or 1 in 250,230. In Cameroon Rafiatou is most frequent in: Northwest Region, where 39 percent are found, Adamawa Region, where 36 percent are found and South Region, where 7 percent are found. Beside Cameroon it is found in 5 countries. It also occurs in Niger, where 8 percent are found and Ethiopia, where 4 percent are found.
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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 Rafiatou
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