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
Sefa Political Affiliation
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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 or territory. It can appear as: Šefa. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Sefa? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 22,198th most prevalent family name throughout the world. It is borne by around 1 in 297,609 people. The last name Sefa occurs mostly 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 occurring first name in the world, held by 48,944 people.
The last name is most common in Ethiopia, where it is borne by 11,430 people, or 1 in 8,534. Excluding Ethiopia this surname is found in 63 countries. It is also common in Ghana, where 24 percent are found and Albania, where 8 percent are found.
Sefa Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Sefa last name are 18.94% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 65.71% being registered with the 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
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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 Sefa
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