Safor Surname
Approximately 160 people bear this surname
Safor Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 74 | 1:280,663 | 26,698 |
| Pakistan | 68 | 1:2,627,116 | 22,516 |
| India | 4 | 1:191,766,346 | 1,073,940 |
| Spain | 2 | 1:23,376,018 | 128,922 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Safor (1,297) may also be a first name.
Safor Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Safor Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Safor (Arabic: سفور, Russian: Сафор) is borne by more people in Cameroon than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered as:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Safor? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,374,607th most numerous surname on a worldwide basis, held by around 1 in 45,547,162 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 48 percent of Safor live; 46 percent live in Central Africa and 46 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 218,571st most commonly held first name in the world, borne by 1,297 people.
This surname is most common in Cameroon, where it is carried by 74 people, or 1 in 280,663. In Cameroon Safor is most frequent in: Southwest Region, where 49 percent are found, Northwest Region, where 34 percent are found and Littoral Region, where 14 percent are found. Outside of Cameroon this surname exists in 15 countries. It is also common in Pakistan, where 43 percent are found and India, where 3 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Safor Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Safor in the Russian language | ||
| Сафор | safor | - |
| Safor in the Arabic language | ||
| سفور | sfwr | - |
| سعفور | sfwr | - |
| صفور | sfwr | - |
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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 Safor
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