Rafle Surname
Approximately 976 people bear this surname
Rafle Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Somalia | 882 | 1:15,252 | 975 |
| United States | 43 | 1:8,429,278 | 367,833 |
| France | 26 | 1:2,554,720 | 189,486 |
| Malaysia | 12 | 1:2,457,852 | 95,442 |
| Canada | 4 | 1:9,211,398 | 321,528 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 1:25,109,342 | 694,541 |
The alternate forms: Räfle (20) & Raflé (9) are calculated separately.
Rafle (255) may also be a first name.
Rafle Demographics
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Rafle Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Rafle Come From? nationality or country of origin
Rafle (Hindi: रफले) occurs in Somalia more than any other country or territory. It may appear in the variant forms: Räfle or Raflé. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Rafle? popularity and diffusion
Rafle is the 368,594th most common last name on a worldwide basis, held by approximately 1 in 7,466,748 people. Rafle is primarily found in Africa, where 90 percent of Rafle live; 90 percent live in East Africa and 90 percent live in Cushitic Africa. Rafle is also the 557,860th most frequently used first name worldwide. It is borne by 255 people.
The surname Rafle is most widely held in Somalia, where it is carried by 882 people, or 1 in 15,252. Beside Somalia Rafle occurs in 11 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 4 percent live and France, where 3 percent live.
Rafle Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Rafle has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Rafle last name expanded 2,150 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Rafle Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Rafle last name are 33.23% more likely to be registered Republicans than the national average, with 80% registered with the party.
Rafle earn around the same as the average income. In United States they earn 0.78% more than the national average, earning $43,485 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Rafle Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Rafle in the Hindi language | ||
| रफले | raphale | - |
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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 Rafle
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