Sarafe Surname
Approximately 830 people bear this surname
Sarafe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iran | 720 | 1:106,642 | 10,273 |
| India | 101 | 1:7,594,707 | 163,091 |
| Argentina | 2 | 1:21,371,707 | 253,176 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Ivory Coast | 2 | 1:11,535,616 | 61,806 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
Sarafe (715) may also be a first name.
Sarafe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sarafe Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Sarafe (Hindi: सरफे, Marathi: सराफे) occurs in Iran more than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of Sarafe.
How Common Is The Last Name Sarafe? popularity and diffusion
Sarafe is the 418,547th most frequently held last name worldwide, held by around 1 in 8,780,176 people. The last name occurs mostly in Asia, where 99 percent of Sarafe are found; 99 percent are found in South Asia and 87 percent are found in Islamic South Asia. Sarafe is also the 308,804th most commonly occurring given name throughout the world, held by 715 people.
The last name Sarafe is most commonly held in Iran, where it is held by 720 people, or 1 in 106,642. In Iran it is most common in: Semnan Province, where 50 percent live, Tehran Province, where 18 percent live and Razavi Khorasan Province, where 8 percent live. Barring Iran it occurs in 6 countries. It is also found in India, where 12 percent live and Argentina, where 0 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Sarafe Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Sarafe in the Hindi language | ||
| सरफे | saraphe | 83.33 |
| सराफे | saraphe | 16.67 |
| Sarafe in the Marathi language | ||
| सराफे | saraphe | 81.93 |
| सरफे | saraphe | 18.07 |
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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 Sarafe
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