Salafah Surname

5,812,366th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 11 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Indonesia
Highest density in:
Iraq

Salafah Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Salafah Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Indonesia71:18,892,742520,071
Iraq41:8,755,41423,373

Salafah (584) may also be a first name.

Salafah Last Name Facts

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

The last name Salafah is found in Indonesia more than any other country or territory. It can be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Salafah? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 5,812,366th most frequently held surname internationally It is held by approximately 1 in 662,504,174 people. It is predominantly found in Asia, where 100 percent of Salafah live; 64 percent live in Southeast Asia and 64 percent live in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia. It is also the 346,315th most widely held first name throughout the world, held by 584 people.

The surname is most commonly occurring in Indonesia, where it is held by 7 people, or 1 in 18,892,742. In Indonesia it is mostly concentrated in: Central Java, where 57 percent live and East Java, where 43 percent live. Without taking into account Indonesia this last name is found in one country. It also occurs in Iraq, where 36 percent live.

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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 Salafah
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