Sefa Surname
Approximately 24,487 people bear this surname
Sefa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ethiopia | 11,430 | 1:8,534 | 1,320 |
| Ghana | 5,957 | 1:4,536 | 644 |
| Albania | 2,073 | 1:1,406 | 191 |
| Bangladesh | 1,532 | 1:104,019 | 4,444 |
| Turkey | 1,008 | 1:77,204 | 7,098 |
| Kosovo | 535 | 1:3,480 | 575 |
| Zimbabwe | 259 | 1:59,607 | 9,026 |
| South Africa | 236 | 1:229,567 | 23,799 |
| United States | 210 | 1:1,725,995 | 114,113 |
| Malawi | 209 | 1:81,910 | 10,289 |
| Indonesia | 156 | 1:847,751 | 64,043 |
| Greece | 143 | 1:77,481 | 13,045 |
| Egypt | 122 | 1:753,572 | 38,342 |
| England | 67 | 1:831,613 | 44,286 |
| Papua New Guinea | 63 | 1:129,424 | 17,695 |
| DR Congo | 48 | 1:1,539,158 | 86,567 |
| Belgium | 46 | 1:249,927 | 30,800 |
| Nigeria | 41 | 1:4,320,555 | 118,938 |
| Canada | 40 | 1:921,140 | 70,350 |
| Niger | 39 | 1:492,103 | 12,962 |
| Germany | 38 | 1:2,118,565 | 113,742 |
| Romania | 30 | 1:669,262 | 46,959 |
| Sweden | 29 | 1:339,543 | 23,803 |
| New Caledonia | 21 | 1:13,153 | 3,514 |
| Montenegro | 14 | 1:45,683 | 3,117 |
| Ivory Coast | 13 | 1:1,774,710 | 34,235 |
| North Macedonia | 12 | 1:175,123 | 12,543 |
| Northern Cyprus | 10 | 1:31,901 | 6,529 |
| Italy | 10 | 1:6,115,669 | 111,715 |
| Benin | 9 | 1:1,148,400 | 50,768 |
| India | 9 | 1:85,229,487 | 684,495 |
| Solomon Islands | 7 | 1:82,861 | 15,196 |
| Serbia | 6 | 1:1,190,825 | 29,487 |
| Bulgaria | 5 | 1:1,395,781 | 41,665 |
| Russia | 5 | 1:28,824,611 | 530,332 |
| Kenya | 4 | 1:11,544,975 | 62,419 |
| Australia | 4 | 1:6,748,925 | 181,100 |
| United Arab Emirates | 4 | 1:2,290,568 | 60,372 |
| Switzerland | 4 | 1:2,053,229 | 97,179 |
| Brazil | 3 | 1:71,358,111 | 770,017 |
| Austria | 3 | 1:2,838,478 | 93,604 |
| Netherlands | 3 | 1:5,629,059 | 132,535 |
| Azerbaijan | 3 | 1:3,216,374 | 32,290 |
| Norway | 3 | 1:1,714,095 | 79,528 |
| China | 2 | 1:683,660,783 | 30,601 |
| Thailand | 2 | 1:35,319,172 | 966,191 |
| Algeria | 2 | 1:19,315,776 | 97,017 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Northern Ireland | 1 | 1:1,845,036 | 20,648 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1 | 1:3,536,402 | 19,532 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Zambia | 1 | 1:15,849,922 | 53,989 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Slovenia | 1 | 1:2,487,675 | 31,128 |
| Slovakia | 1 | 1:5,336,450 | 140,422 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Croatia | 1 | 1:4,228,604 | 99,289 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Haiti | 1 | 1:10,683,907 | 24,607 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
The alternate forms: Šefa (7) are calculated separately.
Sefa (48,944) may also be a first name.
Sefa Demographics
Average Sefa Salary in
United States
$49,867 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Sefa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sefa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Sefa (Bengali: সেফা, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺻﻔﺎ, Hindi: सेफा, Russian: Сефа) is held by more people in Ethiopia than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered in the variant forms: Šefa. Click here to see other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Sefa? popularity and diffusion
The surname Sefa is the 22,198th most frequently held last name globally, borne by around 1 in 297,609 people. The surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 75 percent of Sefa live; 47 percent live in East Africa and 47 percent live in Ethiosemitic Africa. Sefa is also the 18,859th most frequently held first name on earth, borne by 48,944 people.
This surname is most frequently held in Ethiopia, where it is carried by 11,430 people, or 1 in 8,534. Excluding Ethiopia this last name occurs in 63 countries. It also occurs in Ghana, where 24 percent live and Albania, where 8 percent live.
Sefa Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Sefa surname are 18.94% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 65.71% being registered with the political party.
The amount Sefa earn in different countries varies markedly. In South Africa they earn 31.87% less than the national average, earning R 161,904 per year; in United States they earn 15.57% more than the national average, earning $49,867 USD per year and in Canada they earn 4.63% less than the national average, earning $47,384 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Sefa Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Sefa in the Hindi language | ||
| सेफा | sepha | 96.77 |
| सेफा़ | sepha | 1.61 |
| सेफ़ | sefa | 1.61 |
| Sefa in the Bengali language | ||
| সেফা | sepha | 87.5 |
| শেফা | sepha | 12.5 |
| Sefa in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺻﻔﺎ | sfa | 50 |
| ﺳﻴﻔﺎ | syfa | 50 |
| Sefa in the Russian language | ||
| Сефа | sefa | - |
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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 Sefa
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