Sawafta Surname
Approximately 734 people bear this surname
Sawafta Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saudi Arabia | 517 | 1:59,682 | 8,852 |
| Palestine | 145 | 1:31,371 | 4,103 |
| United Arab Emirates | 23 | 1:398,360 | 23,003 |
| Jordan | 21 | 1:421,068 | 12,361 |
| United States | 10 | 1:36,245,893 | 832,629 |
| Bahrain | 4 | 1:337,152 | 6,054 |
| Israel | 2 | 1:4,278,817 | 136,311 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| Libya | 1 | 1:6,243,974 | 6,186 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
Sawafta Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sawafta Come From? nationality or country of origin
Sawafta is found most in Saudi Arabia. It can also appear as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Sawafta? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 460,168th most widely held family name globally. It is borne by around 1 in 9,928,537 people. The surname is mostly found in Asia, where 97 percent of Sawafta reside; 97 percent reside in West Asia and 74 percent reside in Arabian Peninsula.
The surname Sawafta is most commonly occurring in Saudi Arabia, where it is held by 517 people, or 1 in 59,682. Apart from Saudi Arabia this last name exists in 16 countries. It is also found in Palestine, where 20 percent reside and The United Arab Emirates, where 3 percent reside.
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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
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