Raftos Surname

2,460,878th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 61 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Australia
Highest density in:
Australia

Raftos Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Raftos Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Australia571:473,60936,415
Belgium11:11,496,644167,539
Greece11:11,079,790145,225
Scotland11:5,353,81763,002
South Africa11:54,177,704343,732

Raftos Last Name Facts

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

The last name Raftos is held by more people in Australia than any other country/territory. It may occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Raftos? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 2,460,878th most prevalent surname on earth, held by approximately 1 in 119,467,966 people. The last name is mostly found in Oceania, where 93 percent of Raftos live; 93 percent live in Australasia and 93 percent live in Australia and New Zealand.

This surname is most frequently used in Australia, where it is held by 57 people, or 1 in 473,609. In Australia Raftos is most numerous in: New South Wales, where 74 percent are found, South Australia, where 11 percent are found and Queensland, where 7 percent are found. Besides Australia this surname is found in 4 countries. It is also found in Belgium, where 2 percent are found and Greece, where 2 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Rafto9132/
Raftus83115/
Raftas8313/
Raftou833/
Rafthod771/
Rafta73602/
Rawto735/
Rabto731/
Raftaj67121/
Raffta6771/
Raftaz6762/
Raftat6752/
Rabtoy6750/
Raftah6716/
Ravtod675/
Rabtou674/
Raftha673/
Ravtho673/
Rofhto671/
Rawtho671/
Rabtoi671/
Rofthouse670/

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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 Raftos
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